Today's robots perform safety checks at industrial plants, conduct quality control in manufacturing, and are even starting to keep hospital patients company. But soon - perhaps very soon - these ...

Today on "Uncanny Valley," we talk about why the AI industry is investing in the development of humanoid robots, and what ...

The researchers detailed their findings in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence. "Like humans learning to dance by ...

To effectively tackle a variety of real-world tasks, robots should be able to reliably grasp objects of different shapes, textures and sizes, without dropping them in undesired locations. Conventional ...

Humanoid robots promise to take on dull and dangerous jobs. But is that really true? what about the future of human work?

Stevie, a robot built by engineers to meet a very present need in assisted care homes, has no plans to follow the crowd. Earlier today (13 November), a team of robotic engineers led by Prof Conor ...

James Pikul receives funding from the Office of Naval Research. He is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Metal Light Inc. Earlier this year, a robot completed a half-marathon in ...

Simply sign up to the Technology myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. For more than 100 years, writers, artists and filmmakers have sketched out their visions of the household robot, a ...