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

There's an app for everything. And everything has an App Store. Including, now, humanoid robots, courtesy of Unitree.

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

But you can see the market appeal. A robot vacuum cleaner can’t climb stairs to clean an upstairs room. A robot arm that ...

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

Christmastime is here again, which means that it’s time to go shopping for ornate gifts that are ostensibly purchased for the children in your lives but which you’re really planning on playing with ...

Gen AI models aren’t just good for creating pictures—they can be fine-tuned to generate useful robot training data, too. Generative AI models can produce images in response to prompts within seconds, ...

SoftBank reckons the combination of AI and multi-access edge computing (MEC) can usher in a future of office workers and robots working together.

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At MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, robots are assisting pharmacists with mixing and delivering some of the most common chemotherapy drugs to cancer patients. NBC News’ Anne Thompson has a ...