F or decades, humanoid robots lived in science fiction and in high-tech labs. That’s changing. Engineers and companies across ...

A new algorithm has been designed to enable robots to make safer decisions around humans. In a factory setting, robots and ...

When robots work safely with humans, they can provide clear benefits. Industries facing labor shortages, such as elder care, could see relief. Physically demanding jobs might also become safer for ...

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

As China's robot-to-worker density rises, automation encroaches on worker territory. What does this mean for employees?

For many children, the transition from learning to read to reading to learn is a crucial and sometimes nervewracking ...

Robots are moving from structured environments into human spaces. Can strategies help them balance risk & efficiency?

Hyundai Motor Group plans a closer collaboration with its Boston Dynamics robotics unit, purchased in 2021, which has developed a number of bipedal and quadrupedal robots. The industrial giant plans ...

Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson sees opportunity in an American labor shortage. The company's humanoid robots have already been put to work commercially. Johnson doesn't think they'll displace ...

A new study from University of California, Merced, and Pennsylvania State University, reported by news site The Debrief, boils down into a single word: trust. We just trust human-shaped robots much ...

An AI-driven robot successfully removed gallbladders from pig cadavers on its own. Here’s how they did it. (And surgeons shouldn’t put away their scalpels just yet.) ...