When Japan’s SLIM spacecraft touched down on the Moon, the landing was historic — but not exactly graceful. The spacecraft ...

A tiny robot no bigger than a baseball has quietly rewritten the rules of moon exploration. In January 2024, Japan's space ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

Thanks to new technologies like artificial intelligence, scientists are increasingly freed from the constraints of the laboratory. It raises questions about how much humans should outsource to robots.

Scientists are building autonomous robotic labs powered by artificial intelligence. The goal, they say, is for these robots ...

Orbit Robotics built Helios, a four-armed robot designed for zero gravity that grips and braces inside spacecraft while ...

Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael ...

Most robots are built to look like something. Engineers designing machines to navigate the real world have, for decades, reached for the same reference points: the human skeleton, the dog's ...

Indian American Johns Hopkins professor gets top honors at global summit for pioneering work in artificial intelligence.

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