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

New companies are building robots in record time ... and at record cost. Massive changes have made physical AI — giving AI a ...

Teddy Warner, 19, has always been interested in robotics. His family was in the industry, and he says he “grew up” working in a machinist shop while in high school. Now Warner is building a robotics ...

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

As more of us live longer, can robots help us maintain healthier, more independent and dignified lives? The robots I've been studying are friendly, helpful machines that can talk, remind, monitor—and ...

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 ...

AI and robots need data — lots of it. Companies that have millions of users have an advantage in this data collection, because they can use the data of their customers. A well-known example is ...

Robots are machines that can automatically perform both simple and complex actions. They are often programmed by a computer, but there's no single definition of a robot. Robots include a wide variety ...

Humanoid robots pose unique safety risks. That's driving a push for new standards before they start sharing our workplaces and homes. Last year, a humanoid warehouse robot named Digit set to work ...

If you've ordered food on Uber Eats recently, you may have seen a delivery robot instead of a human driver. Uber has partnered with Avride to bring autonomous robots to the streets. They already ...

Daniele Magistro receives funding from the EPSRC and NIHR. As more of us live longer, can robots help us maintain healthier, more independent and dignified lives? The robots I’ve been studying are ...