Several firms including Tesla are vying to build humanoid robots. But widespread adoption faces hurdles including safety ...

Humanoid robot training is booming around the world. Tech companies are rushing to build the robots for a market projected to ...

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 ...

Nitin J. Sanket, a professor at WPI, has developed small flying robots with his team that fit in the palm of a hand and use ...

Just like bees, the individual robots in this simulation have no master plan. Simply by responding to local cues, they are able to construct honeycomb-like structures. The method could presage a new ...

If you push through the heavy “headline fatigue” we’ve dealt with this year, you’ll find some pretty fascinating news stories about robotics. Take June, when Chinese universities Tsinghua University ...

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 ...

SERVICES AND PERMANENTLY OFF THE STREETS. STUDENTS AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY ARE BUILDING AND TESTING ROBOTS THAT COULD ONE DAY HELP US OUT AT HOME. THEY ARE PROGRAMING THESE ROBOTS TO HELP WITH EVERYDAY ...

Researchers have developed a new robotic framework powered by artificial intelligence -- called RHyME (Retrieval for Hybrid Imitation under Mismatched Execution) -- that allows robots to learn tasks ...

AlphaBot 2 wants to beat humans at their own game. When the robot is asked if it wants to play dice, it can interpret the question and jump into action – pressing the button on an automatic dice ...

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 ...