Thanks to new technologies like artificial intelligence, scientists are increasingly freed from the constraints of the laboratory. It raises questions about how much humans should outsource to robots.

A robot arm stacks disks on pegs, solving a Towers-of-Hanoi puzzle move by move. Nothing about the task looks remarkable ...

The worldwide AI race is fast developing beyond the computer screen and focusing on the physical world around us. Top labs ...

Until now, pretty much all humanoid robots have come with an eye-watering price tag. Rotaku, a startup from the San Francisco ...

China’s missile-armed robot dogs and humanoid systems point to a new phase in military robotics, raising questions about AI ...

Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5, a robotic brain it says enables general-purpose robots to perform complex physical tasks with human-level dexterity.

Ready for a home robot that wakes you up, makes breakfast and even cleans the house afterward? It may sound far-fetched. However, the Chinese robotics company UniX AI says it is closer than most ...

I let Shark’s and Dyson’s new AI-powered robot vac-mops loose in my home. One was a clear winner. I unleashed both on two floors of my home to see which one did better job of cleaning. I set up a few ...

Clyde Vanel, a New York Assembly Member from Queens (D–Cambria Heights), could hardly believe his eyes when he watched a ...

A warehouse robot rolls up to a cluttered shelf, scans the scene, and figures out which box to grab next. Until recently, that moment of “thinking” required a round trip to a cloud server: sensor data ...