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

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

There’s something ominous about robots taking over jobs that humans are suited to do. Maybe you don’t want a job turning a wrench or pushing a broom, but someone does. But then there are the jobs no ...

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

We build our machines to extend human capacity,” said Brady, Amazon’s robotics chief, laying out a vision of collaborative robots augmenting rather than replacing human labor. But the advent of Vulcan ...

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

As both the parent of newly graduated elementary and middle school students, and as a VC who invests in the technologies that could take away future jobs from our kids, I get this question a lot.

DETROIT — Employees at S&F Foods dreaded lifting heavy cardboard boxes from a conveyor belt and placing them onto pallets for shipment all day. So Mike Calleja, the plant manager for the company, ...