Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

Humanoid robots are being taught — by real humans, of course — how to do basic tasks like pouring coffee, folding laundry and opening fridges.

Atharv Kolhar, a staff test automation engineer at Figure AI, says the robotics industry needs a testing philosophy that scales alongside autonomy.

Physical Intelligence is drawing on the broad knowledge of large language models to help robots understand instructions and ...

Engineers and computer scientists are developing AI-powered robots that look and act human. Boston Dynamics invited 60 ...

Humans no longer have exclusive control over training social robots to interact effectively, thanks to a new study. The study introduces a new simulation method that lets researchers test their social ...

A mobile robot developed by Samsung-controlled Rainbow Robotics has reportedly begun testing inside a ...

And, before that, Krieger's Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, STAR, performed the first autonomous robot surgery on a live animal – a laparoscopic surgery on a pig – in 2022. But it was much more heavily ...

The quest for agile quadrupedal robots is limited by handcrafted reward design in reinforcement learning. While animal motion capture provides 3D references, its cost prohibits scaling. Video learning ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A growing workforce of robot controllers is teaching humanoids to move like people so they can work in factories ...