The real measure for robotic capabilities involves conducting “quantitative, large-scale evaluations” in real-world ...

A robot that performs well in a controlled simulation can struggle when real-world conditions don't match what it was trained ...

Nature has spent millions of years perfecting movement, efficiency, and survival. Engineers are now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a “major leap” towards using more robots in operating theatres, this machine trained on the videos of surgeries was able to ...

A four-legged robot now walks like a living, breathing creature—no rehearsals, no manual tweaks. Researchers at the University of Leeds designed it to move, react, and adapt entirely on its own.

What happens when artificial intelligence (AI) moves from painting portraits to designing homes? That question is no longer theoretical. At the Utzon Center in Denmark, Ai-Da Robot, the world's first ...

Nvidia's decision to build its new humanoid robot platform around Unitree indicates a major push into robotics, autonomous ...

Making machine perception reliable enough for real deployment requires more than better AI; it requires properly calibrated ...

A humanoid robot is now rallying tennis shots with a human in real time. It runs without a script or remote control, so it can react instantly on a tennis court. The robot stands about 4 feet tall, ...

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, ...

Sometimes the right tool for the right job appears almost out of nowhere. That was certainly the case for [Jonathan] who came across an unusual but well-designed robot at a secondhand shop. The robot ...