At the Olympiad, organizers hoped to lay a foundation for annual competitions providing an “honest validation of the progress that has been made in humanoid robots,” said Patrick Jarvis, who with ...

Teleoperated robots at scale, even if years away, could mean a seismic shift in how we think about labor and automation. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI.

Tesla's robots serving drinks and talking to guests at the "We Robot" were partly controlled by humans. The robots' performance quickly raised skepticism about their true capabilities and independence ...

"The Wild Robot" has clearly struck a chord. The DreamWorks Animation feature, written and directed by Chris Sanders, stars Lupita Nyong'o as a robot (she calls herself Roz) who washes ashore on an ...

If you've ever watched a video featuring a Boston Dynamics Spot robot dog and wanted to saddle it up and ride it, then Kawasaki has a concept robot that'll make your heart flutter -- and it's part ...

Powered by light, the robots carry computers and can move in complex patterns, say Penn Engineering and University of ...

Professor Boyuan Chen poses with some of his 3D printed robots that were designed and built through his new platform called Text2Robot that allows people to simply tell a computer what kind of robot ...

Weave Robotics, the California startup behind the laundry-folding robot, has started placing robots in laundromats. Former Apple engineers Evan Wineland and Kaan Dogrusoz founded the company. It plans ...