Aniket Bera’s lab works with applications that include virtual therapy, autonomous vehicles and rescue bots like this robot dog, marrying the hardware of robots with the software of artificial ...

STANFORD, Calif. — Artificial intelligence can find you a recipe or generate a picture, but it can't hang a picture on a wall or cook you dinner. Chelsea Finn wants that to change. Finn, an engineer ...

At its heart, robotics is about building machines that can do things for us. Think of it as giving a machine a set of ...

Swarm Intelligence, inspired by collective behaviors in nature, is now being applied to robotics, enabling multiple humanoid robots to collaborate seamlessly on complex tasks. UBTech's Walker S1 ...

Researchers have developed small robots that can work together as a collective that changes shape and even shifts between solid and “fluid-like” states — a concept that should be familiar to anyone ...

On a BMW assembly line in South Carolina, a humanoid robot has quietly reached a milestone that many human workers never see, ...

FieldAI, an Irvine, California-based robotics startup, has raised $405 million across multiple previously undisclosed rounds to develop what it calls “foundational embodied AI models” — essentially ...

Thinking outside the box is one thing; finding a robot to deliver the box is another. That’s what Marianela Nanninga does at ToDo Robotics. The ability to adapt has been my constant friend, sewn into ...

It was early January 2016, and I had just joined Google X, Alphabet’s secret innovation lab. My job: help figure out what to do with the employees and technology left over from nine robot companies ...

Humanoid robots are having a moment. Amazon is testing out bipedal robots called Digit from startup Agility Robotics in its warehouses. Figure AI recently raised a $675 million megaround at a $2.6 ...