People living in Chicago's Lakeview East neighborhood have been at the center of a delivery pilot program, and most of them aren't happy with the robots or in favor of expanding their footprint. At ...

Americans pulling into a Starbucks drive‑thru may be greeted by a friendly staff member. But at some locations, it is actually an AI robot entering the orders. Behind the counter inside the store, ...

Before you can get a robot to do anything useful, you need to understand how it works and the math behind its movements. It’s like learning the alphabet before you can write a novel. This section ...

ABERDEEN — Plastic parts, rubber tubes and wires littered a table in a botany classroom at Aberdeen High School. University of Idaho Extension educator Tom Jacobsen, Fremont County, told a group of ...

The home-vacuum robot began, like most things, with war. In August 1990, the same month and year Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, three MIT roboticists incorporated the company that would eventually ...

The U.S. government’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has launched a new funding program aimed at the development of autonomous robotics—including a special focus on systems designed to ...

Coco Robotics announced that it is collaborating with Uber Eats (UBER) and Shake Shack (SHAK) on autonomous deliveries for two locations in the Chicago region. The partnership will see Coco's robots ...

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, ...

Today, in the margins of Xpeng’s AI Day in Guangzhou, I rode in Xpeng’s latest advanced driver assistance system, its Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ (FSD) competitor. It has the same capabilities as ...

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 ...