AMES, Iowa – The team of middle schoolers didn’t know how to make an app. Neither did their teacher. But that didn’t stop them. And so, when the “Rubble Busters” from Maxwell show up for the Iowa ...

Environmental Services team at Dubuque hospital with R2D2, the cleaning robot. (Photo courtesy of Finley Hospital) Three robots are at work in a northeast Iowa hospital, making the final sweep to make ...

Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, the recent popularity of anti-robot lingo ...

AMES, Iowa – The small robots in Ran Dai’s basement lab at Iowa State University look like fancy electronic toys. But they’re really very smart. And they’re getting smarter. Dai, an Iowa State ...

In science fiction, robots can be neurotic. Think "Star Wars" and C-3PO. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "STAR WARS: EPISODE IV - A NEW HOPE") ANTHONY DANIELS: (As C-3PO) What are we going to do? We'll be sent to ...