There is also a dance studio, complete with a wood floor and large mirrors. Here scientists record the movements of human ...

See new human-shaped robots, including MIMA’s skill-glove training for dishes and laundry, so you can gauge real home-ready ...

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Weave Robotics, the California startup behind the laundry-folding robot, has started placing robots in laundromats. Former ...

The device advances medicine toward a future that might see tiny robots sent into the body to rewire damaged nerves, deliver ...

True robotic dexterity will open up markets that automation has barely touched, such as This is where robotics evolves from repetitive to relational. We need to build machines that learn from people ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but human psychology and the uncanny valley may stand between them and world ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognize objects, navigate ...

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The outlook could be bleak or bright depending on how we view the rise of humanoid robots. Think of this quote from a book by Jacob Morgan: “While many futurists and business leaders believe that ...

By reusing knowledge from previous tasks and applying it to new ones, the robot can generalize far more efficiently, which is ...