Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet.

Transformer mannequin at Ripley's Believe It or Not in London, 2020 (Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital) Would you welcome a robot into your home? Guess what: You probably already have. That’s if you use ...

A hotel that is managed almost entirely by robots. Robot hotels check people in via computer and provide towels, laundry and room service using mechanical robots. For emergencies and other services, ...

A home or work robot from Hello Robot that is trained by the user with software from the company. Launched in 2020, the robot was designed for autonomous operation but can also be remotely controlled.

A sceptical internet – quick to demonstrate the crab mentality evident among us – was quick to label the mannequin fitted with a speaker and an LLM as not a true robot. But the real question here is: ...

As more robots start showing up in warehouses, offices, and even people’s homes, the idea of large language models hacking into complex systems sounds like the stuff of sci-fi nightmares. So, ...

In a room at the University of Oslo in Norway, Tiago moves around, looking people straight in the eye with a smiling face. Sometimes Tiago gets agitated, like when it plays Connect Four, a board game ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

Global industrial robotics installations surged to over 541,000 units in 2023, but while China leads in volume, other emerging markets like India and the U.K. are driving the fastest growth in ...