The worldwide AI race is fast developing beyond the computer screen and focusing on the physical world around us. Top labs are intent on making “thinking” robots, with brains that mimic our own, which ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

One day in the near future you could be lying incapacitated in the middle of an earthquake-ravaged landscape where wheeled vehicles can’t reach you. Or in the very distant future, after engineers have ...

Leaders at Amazon Robotics, Teradyne Robotics, and Cobot will discuss how they're applying physical AI to robots in customer ...

Imagine a robot that could do your laundry, make your bed, cook your dinner, or stock the dairy section at your local grocery store. Humans have long been able to teach robots how to do individual ...

The vision of robots as true partners in our daily work has remained just that—a vision. While we’ve seen an explosion of humanoid and semi-humanoid designs recently, these new platforms face a ...

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world. Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the ...

Figure is paying humans to record everyday tasks like cooking and cleaning, building a massive real-world data library to ...

Ask a robot to put a coffee mug in the cabinet, and you quickly see how complicated an ordinary chore can become. You know where the mug belongs. You can step around a chair, avoid the clutter on the ...

It’s fairly easy for people to learn from other people – we’ve been doing it for around 300,000 years – because we can observe, copy, and modify what they’re doing. It’s less easy for us to learn from ...