Scientists achieve major robotics milestone as robot learns 1,000 different physical tasks in single day, potentially transforming manufacturing, healthcare and home robotics.

I’m standing in a kitchenette at a Google office in Mountain View, California, observing a robot at work. It’s staring at items on a counter: bubbly water, a bag of whole-grain chips, an energy drink, a protein bar. After what seems like forever, it ...

Today's robotic world is a fairly advanced one, with a wide variety of machines capable of doing a whole lot of amazing things. Yet our world is far from having reached the peak of this industry while robots, despite some specialized ones being capable of ...

Learn how humanoid robots use adaptive control and error recovery, helping teams handle tough tasks with fewer stoppages.

How would you feel if your child were being tutored by a robot? Social robots – robots that can talk and mimic and respond to human emotion – have been introduced into classrooms around the world. Researchers have used them to read stories to preschool ...

Our students are growing into a world where they will find themselves sharing their space, work, and lives with more and more robots. More than a year ago I read an article about McDonald’s using robot arms to make french fries, so even a job as ...

Researchers at IIT Bombay and Southern Methodist University are using classical dance form Bharatanatyam to robots more like human | News, Art + Culture, US editions, Opinion, South Asia News

Hands move constantly during conversation. They signal emotion, stress a point, and form full languages such as American Sign Language.

Okay, this story is Tom bait. As regular readers of this Blog know, I am all about the coming robot revolution. Why am I all about it? Because it’s coming and we’re not getting ready. Smart, dexterous robots are at the doorstep now, and they’ll be ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcasted on Dec. 26, 2022. Find that audio here. Danielle Boyer realized at age 10 that the kids in her Ojibwe community weren’t learning about their own Indigenous culture and history. Oftentimes, schools only teach ...