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

Tiny robots small enough to slip through blood vessels are moving from speculative fiction into the medical lab, promising ...

The titular character of the Apple TV+ series "Murderbot" doesn't call itself Murderbot because it identifies as a killer; it just thinks the name is cool. Murderbot, a.k.a. "SecUnit," is programmed ...

Robots designed to utilize artificial intelligence are capturing attention at a trade show showcasing state-of-the-art robot ...

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

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

Researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and Brown University in Providence (USA) have discovered that people sense the hand of a humanoid robot as part of their ...

Welcome to this week’s episode of “man-made horrors beyond human comprehension.” A humanoid robot named DeREK had what you might call a “moment” on the floor of a San Francisco robotics lab this week, ...

We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving ...

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 ...