If you drive to work every day, odds are there's a pothole along your commute that's been irking you for months or even years. If road workers can't get around to fixing it, maybe robots will.

Engineers in the United States have created AI-powered robots that can evolve and reconfigure themselves, as well as recover from damage. The alien-like machines, described as ‘legged metamachines’, ...

In crowded environments, more robots don’t always mean faster results—in fact, too many can bring everything to a standstill.