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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

A Chinese company has unveiled a new humanoid robotic head that is so realistic it can make facial expressions that blur the line between man and machine.