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

Humanoid robots have been promised for decades, but most still look and move like machines. Ameca changes that, with a face ...

There is also a dance studio, complete with a wood floor and large mirrors. Here scientists record the movements of human ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. In an Indian town, workers fold towels while wearing cameras, providing data to teach AI robots how to move and ...

Walking, talking humanoid robots that were once firmly the domain of science fiction are on their way. In fact, a Morgan Stanley report recently predicted that 13 million human robots will be among us ...

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

We're a step closer to entering an operating theater without any human life besides ours, following the world's first surgery performed by a robot responding and learning in real time. Its precision ...

Over the past decades, roboticists have introduced a wide range of systems that can effectively tackle some real-world ...

BEIJING — They aren’t the most graceful athletes, or the fastest. But they’re learning. From Friday to Sunday, human handlers from 16 countries put about 500 bipedal robots through various motions to ...

A dozen or so young men and women, eyes obscured by VR headsets, shuffle around a faux kitchen inside a tech company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Their arms are bent at the elbows, palms facing down ...