From drones and humanoid robots to collaborative “cobots” designed to work alongside humans, sophisticated machines are ...

Count iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) co-founder Rodney Brooks as one of the skeptics that humanoid robots will be able to deliver on all the promises being made across the industry. Brooks also is the ...

Researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and Brown University in Providence (U.S.) have discovered that people sense the hand of a humanoid robot as part of their ...

Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying ...

To estimate the weight of a rock, you pick it up. Is it rough, or smooth? You run a finger over it. We're constantly gathering information through our sense of touch, which is closely connected to how ...

Carnegie Mellon scientists create AggreBots, tiny lung-cell robots powered by cilia with controlled motility.Word excerpt: ...

Tesla faces $51M lawsuit after robot knocked technician unconscious at Fremont plant, raising questions about automation ...

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...

If you have spent time online in the past year, you’ve likely noticed how the web is becoming increasingly crowded with ...

Monash University researchers have trialed a new system demonstrating how humans and robots can team up on the job to make ...

A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.

Lemon Avenue added a new one: a humanoid robot strolling down the street like it was out for an evening constitutional. Blue LED bands glowed on its helmet, its mechanical joints moved in deliberate ...