Viral mishaps underscore a big challenge for robot makers: How can they ensure a humanoid doesn’t hurt a human?

In an Indian town, workers fold towels while wearing cameras, providing data to teach AI robots how to move and operate in physical spaces. Tech giants Tesla, Boston Dynamics and Nvidia race to build ...

For decades, futurists have promised that robots will transform society, yet that still feels like a distant prospect. In this episode, recorded live at the “Web Summit” technology conference in ...

Building on the country’s electric vehicle industry, Chinese companies are making robot parts at a scale and price point ...

Børnich, a forty-two-year-old Norwegian, has been obsessed with robots since he was a child. His firm used to be called ...

ABB Robotics and PSYONIC explore using real human prosthetic touch data to train industrial robots for delicate gripping ...

A growing workforce of robot controllers is teaching humanoids to move like people so they can work in factories and homes. The humanoid robots are being taught how to do basic tasks: pouring coffee, ...

Engineers and computer scientists are developing AI-powered robots that look and act human. Boston Dynamics invited 60 ...

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world. Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the ...

A robot that follows you around the house may sound a little strange at first. Yet Colin Angle, the cofounder of iRobot and one of the people behind Roomba, is betting that the next big home robot may ...