robot revolution In the early 1500s, Leonardo da Vinci designed a hypothetical bridge for the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

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

There’s something ominous about robots taking over jobs that humans are suited to do. Maybe you don’t want a job turning a wrench or pushing a broom, but someone does. But then there are the jobs no ...

Tutor’s first product, Cassie, is designed for a relatively simple task — loading and unloading shipping pallets laden with ...

Yet the next generation of robots will soon be able to learn from experience, creating more adaptable machines—perfect for ...

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 ...

As both the parent of newly graduated elementary and middle school students, and as a VC who invests in the technologies that could take away future jobs from our kids, I get this question a lot.

Inside Amazon’s 100,000-square-foot Greenwood warehouse—which provides the greater Indianapolis area same-day shipping for everything from paper plates to vitamins—robots and people collaborate in ...

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

DETROIT — Employees at S&F Foods dreaded lifting heavy cardboard boxes from a conveyor belt and placing them onto pallets for shipment all day. So Mike Calleja, the plant manager for the company, ...

ELLABELL, Ga.—At Hyundai Motor Group’s ultramodern new auto plant, robots perform a stunning array of tasks. They move materials, attach doors and do almost all of the welding. Dog-like robots, their ...