Robots build cars, vacuum floors and complete sophisticated, minimally invasive medical procedures. But there’s still one thing they can’t do, a scientific head-scratcher that continues to distinguish machines from human beings: While a robot might outsmart a single human, it cannot defeat two.

The new UNLV Drones and Autonomous Systems Lab is in the back of a 99 Cents store building across the street from the Clark County Library on Flamingo.

When you ask UNLV robotics professor Paul Oh how long his laboratory took to create, he can’t help but laugh.

UNLV professor Paul Oh is pleased as they are finally opening the doors on a newly built lab for its drone and robotics programs featuring their Metal Rebel competition entry and many others.

The little girl squirmed in her mother’s arms inside a lab at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, her American flag-themed dress contrasting with the hammers, rulers and other engineering equipment that surrounded her.