It hardly looks like it, but the two swimming robots were set loose in the little pool to study evolution, acting out predator-prey encounters from roughly 540 million years ago.

A study by the University of Cambridge examined the "evolution" of robots, where a mother robot created increasingly successful offspring based on natural selection.

The rapid advancement of AI and robotics means that disruption is inevitable, but there's also potential for incredible digital transformations to take place.

The collection of over 100 robots will follow their evolution through the centuries, investigating how forces such as religious belief, the industrial revolution and 20th-century popular culture ...

A technician adjusts Nao Evolution robot from Japan, during a press preview for the Robots exhibition held at the Science Museum in London, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. The exhibition which shows 500 ...

Roboticists have developed a “mother” robot that can build and evaluate her own “children,” and then decide which version performs best to inform the design of the next generation ...