Robot skin that senses touch and pain — and triggers instant reflexes — makes robots more like humans. It probably also makes ...

In 1775, a Swiss watchmaker named Pierre Jaquet-Droz visited King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, in Versailles, to show off his latest creation: a “living doll” called the Musician. She was ...

Tech companies are collectively spending billions to turn the age old sci-fi trope of humanoid, general-purpose robots into ...

Researchers are developing robots that use AI to read emotions and social cues, making them better at interacting with humans. Are they a solution to labor shortages in fields like health care and ...

They are coming—for your trash. Sorting through 67 million tons of glass, plastic and paper is dirty, low-paid, mind-numbing work. Matanya Horowitz’s AMP Robotics wants to take humans off the job. At ...

Anyone currently worrying about artificial intelligence taking over the world may want to swing by the Boston Dynamics AI Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While walking around, they’d see that ...

In a giant warehouse in Reading, Massachusetts, I meet a pair of robots that look like goofy green footstools from the future. Their round eyes and satisfied grins are rendered with light emitting ...

From the Six Million Dollar Man to RoboCop to the Terminator, Hollywood has produced a pantheon of memorable cyborgs. These hybrids tried to destroy society, or save it, according to their own goals.

Smarter data processing could make machines more helpful and energy-efficient in the real world. A good way to test this principle is robot soccer. Robots perceive the world around them very ...

Robin R. Murphy, Justin Adams and Vignesh Babu Manjunath Gandudi, The Conversation A nurse (left) operates a robot used to interact remotely with coronavirus patients while a physician looks on.