Massachusetts robotics entrepreneurs focus on specialized machines, while West Coast companies pour billions into humanoid ...

Posed by robotics researcher Hans Moravec in 1988, Moravec's Paradox states that tasks that are simple for humans are ...

A lot of the stuff we use today is largely made by robots—arms with multiple degrees of freedom positioned along conveyor belts that move in a spectacle of precisely synchronized motions. All this ...

Robots are starting to do jobs like firefighting, lawn mowing and beach cleaning, among other things.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Jonathan Reichental covers technology in business and society. Toy versions of the popular droids R2-D2 and BB-8, part of the ...

In two new papers, UC Berkeley roboticist Ken Goldberg explains why robots are not gaining real-world skills as quickly as AI chatbots are gaining language fluency. UC Berkeley News spoke with ...

Imagine a future where we share our world with walking, talking humanoid robots. It's not hard; we've all seen it in science fiction. But could it be just around the corner? Well, a report recently ...

John McCormick receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Robots come in a vast array of shapes and sizes. By definition, they’re machines that perform automatic tasks and can be operated ...

Courtney doesn’t have eyes, but it’s got sensors everywhere. There are two blinking lights on the front of its boxy body to approximate wide, moony pupils. It’s been described as a “large cooler on ...

On any given day in Miami Beach, Wynwood or Brickell, you’ll see small robots shaped like mini shopping carts rolling down ...