The robotic turtle above can't wield katanas, eat pizza or shout cowabunga, but it can still do something awesome: draw big sand sketches on the beach. It's named "Beachbot" and was developed by a ...

And if this is how you get Turtle to draw a square, you can work out how to make it draw a triangle, a hexagon, or a rectangle with both diagonals marked.

After the robot was taught by 14 volunteers in the lab, the scientists posted questions to Amazon Mechanical Turk. Mechanical Turk distributes simple tasks to thousands of online workers for a small ...

A beach robot creates large-scale sand drawings autonomously, sent to it wirelessly via an app.

And while the robot isn’t fast, (after all, it is a turtle robot) it is three times more efficient than a bipedal robot developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and performed ...

The robot keeps itself from veering into a watery death by tracking its distance by laser to four poles that are stuck into the sand. And in order to keep from leaving footsteps like a clumsy ...

Film maker Disney has revealed a robot that can draw sand pictures on the beach.