Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. To help do all these jobs, the robot needs a list of instructions called a program. The computer uses the program to ...

Lego has announced a new Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit (its first in seven years) that teaches children how to build and design robots. The kit includes 949 pieces and instructions for five ...

Robots do have their own language – and yes, there’s a translator. That’s what I found out from my friend Manoj Karkee, an engineer at Washington State University who also is really curious ...

But as helpful as robot vacuums are, they cannot pick up your kid's 1000-piece puzzle set for you or put away the dirty laundry that you've left in a pile on the floor.

The computer uses the program to tell the robot how to move and what to do. The robot can only do what the program tells it to. The computer has a memory like we do.