A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...

Now, the day is not far when robots will be able to give birth to children like humans. Yes, a Chinese technology company has claimed to have developed a robot that will conceive and give birth to a ...

Human-robot interaction suggests there’ll likely be many contexts where robots don’t displace workers but rather make the ...

Over the next several years, humanoid robots will change the nature of work. Or at least, that’s what humanoid robotics ...

With jerky determination, robots played soccer, wowed children with shadow-boxing skills and shot arrows on Monday at the ...

Matt Carney was good at building robots — he just didn’t want to. While earning his PhD at MIT, he’d spent years studying mechanical engineering and biomechatronics in service of developing bionic ...

Robots-for-rent is one way some small U.S. factories gain access to automation, reducing turnover and ensuring workers aren’t ...

A new breakthrough shows how robots can now integrate both sight and touch to handle objects with greater accuracy, similar to humans.

The field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is characterized by its dynamic evolution, showcasing the potential for robots to ...

Doctors used to be the gold standard of job security. After all, you can't outsource a heart transplant to a chatbot… right? But according to Elon Musk, even the most elite surgeons might want to ...

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 ...

The machines continue to rise. Researchers used artificial intelligence (AI) to train a robotic program to do parts of a gallbladder removal surgery, or a cholecystectomy. The robotic surgeon ...