Building a robot that’s both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction. While the latest artificial intelligence (AI) craze has sparked another wave ...

Joe Tidy meets robots being trained to tidy up all your mess.

Photo caption: Agility Robotics’ warehouse robot Digit performs maneuvers at the company’s office in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. Photo courtesy AP. Building a robot that’s both human-like ...

I saw all the robots at CES but only one will change everything ...

Large language models like ChatGPT display conversational skills, but the problem is they don’t really understand the words they use. They are primarily systems that interact with data obtained from ...

Courtney doesn’t have eyes, but it’s got sensors everywhere. There are two blinking lights on the front of its boxy body to approximate wide, moony pupils. It’s been described as a “large cooler on ...

Robots are made to assist us—to manipulate and improve upon our environments and, ideally, make our lives easier. But in the history of robotic development there have been as many epic fails as ...

Seeing robots made with soft, flexible parts in action appears to lower people's anxiety about working with them or even being replaced by them. A study found that watching videos of a soft robot ...