Robots need power to do anything, just like us. Think about it – without energy, even the most complex machine is just a pile ...

Aryan Gupta’s sanitation rover replaces unsafe manual drain cleaning with a remotely operated, low-cost robot that protects workers and exemplifies ethical, human-centered engineering in urban India.

Primary school students interact with a humanoid robot named Xiao An after a science lesson in Hefei, China. (Han Suyuan / China News Service / Getty Images) Now that artificial intelligence has ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.—Rule #1 when testing humanoid robots: Be nice. You know why; you’ve seen the movies. And Neo looks like it marched straight out of one. The 5-foot-6-inch robot shuffled to the ...

Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...

Robots have been a staple at Amazon warehouses for more than a decade, performing tasks formerly completed by humans, including picking, sorting and moving packages. Now, Amazon plans to make human ...

Amazon has spent years automating its warehouses with robots. Its mechanical workforce is more than one million strong, rivaling the size of its human workforce of some 1.56 million people. Robots, in ...

To someday allow scientists to stay underwater conducting research for days on end, the UK-based company DEEP has designed Vanguard, a "subsea human habitat." The company unveiled its prototype ...

Inside Vanguard, an underwater 'human habitat' designed by UK firm DEEP, where scientists may one day be able to live underwater for days on end while conducting research Inside Vanguard, an ...

To someday allow scientists to stay underwater conducting research for days on end, the UK-based company DEEP has designed Vanguard, a "subsea human habitat." The company unveiled its prototype at a ...

Amazon is the second-largest employer in the world, with 1.5 million workers. A new report shows that Amazon will not have to hire 600,000 people by 2033, thanks to robots and automation. Amazon ...

Job losses could shave 30 cents off each item purchased by 2027. Job losses could shave 30 cents off each item purchased by 2027. is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and ...