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

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

Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making ...

Humanoid says the robot will serve multiple environments, including manufacturing, logistics, and home assistance. The system can walk, turn, ...

See new human-shaped robots, including MIMA’s skill-glove training for dishes and laundry, so you can gauge real home-ready ...

One approach my group is exploring is giving robots a degree of “local intelligence” in their sensorised bodies. Humans ...

An expert predicts robots will outnumber human workers in Amazon's UK warehouses within three years, raising concerns about job losses. Thirteen years after Amazon first introduced robotics into its ...

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 ...

Robot couriers are about to become a routine sight on British pavements, as Uber Eats prepares to roll out autonomous delivery vehicles in partnership with Starship Technologies. The move turns a long ...

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...