A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...

Humanoid robot startups have bragged they'll ship or test thousands of robots by the year's end. So where are they?

Now, the day is not far when robots will be able to give birth to children like humans. Yes, a Chinese technology company has claimed to have developed a robot that will conceive and give birth to a ...

Researchers found that working with a humanoid robot can change how our brains map the body, making its hand feel like part ...

Matt Carney was good at building robots — he just didn’t want to. While earning his PhD at MIT, he’d spent years studying mechanical engineering and biomechatronics in service of developing bionic ...

A new breakthrough shows how robots can now integrate both sight and touch to handle objects with greater accuracy, similar to humans.

The field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is characterized by its dynamic evolution, showcasing the potential for robots to ...

Amazon will soon use more robots in its warehouses than human employees — with more than 1 million machines already deployed across facilities, according to a report. Many of these robots cover the ...

Robots-for-rent is one way some small U.S. factories gain access to automation, reducing turnover and ensuring workers aren’t ...

The titular character of the Apple TV+ series “Murderbot” doesn’t call itself Murderbot because it identifies as a killer; it just thinks the name is cool. Murderbot, a.k.a. “SecUnit,” is programmed ...

There’s a robot for that. What a time to be alive — people are marrying AI bots, and now robots might soon be able to carry babies. Reportedly, China is working on designing a bot with an artificial ...

Doctors used to be the gold standard of job security. After all, you can't outsource a heart transplant to a chatbot… right? But according to Elon Musk, even the most elite surgeons might want to ...