When Steven Spielberg took over directing A.I., he wanted to follow Stanley Kubrick's plan to use a real robot as the lead.

Picture a robot. What comes to mind? Perhaps a droid from Star Wars or The Jetsons: a machine that can move, speak and perform tasks all by itself. Or maybe your imagination jumps to humanoid robots à ...

Three robotics experts said humanoid robots need to move beyond flashy demos to performing tasks that are actually useful in ...

Tesla's groundbreaking Optimus Robot made its first-ever appearance inside a listed $6.85 million home in Los Angeles, creating a buzz with more than 9 million views on social media. Josh Spooner and ...

A new system helps robots navigate homes they’ve never seen before with a little help from open-source AI models. Robots are good at certain tasks. They’re great at picking up and moving objects, for ...

By learning from human touch, robots can grip objects more safely and adapt to real-world conditions without massive training ...

At first glance, the TR1 looks like a compact, square-bodied cleaning robot. But that’s only half the story. With a ...

People who received gentle electric currents on the back of their heads learned to maneuver a robotic surgery tool in virtual reality and then in a real setting much more easily than people who didn't ...

Casually having a conversation with a robot butler might not be as far out as we thought. Figure, an AI robotics company that’s attracted the financial backing of Microsoft and Nvidia, showed off why ...

Because we've seen so many robots. We've seen Robbie the Robot from the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet, Rosie the housekeeper from The Jetsons, the animated Gigantor, C-3PO and R2-D2 from late 1970s Star ...