General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognize objects, navigate ...

Step inside the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, and you find yourself in a space that is part children's nursery, part ...

The tiny, microscopic robot packs an onboard computer, solar cells, and propulsion system, and is capable of sensing its ...

Now that artificial intelligence has mastered almost everything we do online, it needs help learning how we physically move around in the real world. A growing global army of trainers is helping it ...

Tiny robots small enough to slip through blood vessels are moving from speculative fiction into the medical lab, promising ...

What if robots could not only mimic human actions but also think, adapt, and problem-solve like us? This is no longer the realm of science fiction. With the latest advancements in artificial ...

By combining soft materials, cloud-scale simulation, and learning from human motion, researchers are teaching robots to grasp ...

Xpeng's humanoid robot moves so realistically that crowds believed it was fake, marking a major advancement in robotics ...

We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving ...

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions in real time based on a human speaker's intent—a ...