For the past four days, an estimated 600,000 people have been chasing a gigantic robotic spider and minotaur around France's southwestern city of Toulouse in a massive street theater spectacle. The ...

On a dusty test site in Australia, a spider-like robot is quietly rewriting the rules of construction, extruding walls in looping arcs instead of stacking bricks by hand. The same technology that lets ...

Australia, famously, is home to some of the most formidable wildlife on Earth, and its arachnid population is particularly legendary. From the huntsman to the orb-weaver, there are some extraordinary ...