California startups are building robots to help with fold laundry and other tedious tasks as the race to dominate artificial ...

True robotic dexterity will open up markets that automation has barely touched, such as This is where robotics evolves from repetitive to relational. We need to build machines that learn from people ...

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

One of the most significant insights from the study is that roboticists must engage both technically and physically with ...

Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks warns that the vision of humanoid robots as general assistants is unrealistic due to a ...

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

With such success in its first two years, the Humanoids Summit aims to continue to grow to build a better Bay Area through ...

With jerky determination, robots played soccer, wowed children with shadow-boxing skills and shot arrows on Monday at the birthplace of the Olympic Games. As they shuffled and occasionally froze for a ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have extracted the building blocks of precise hand ...

Ancient mudras offer a blueprint for smoother robot hand movement and could inspire new approaches to motor training and ...