Image courtesy by QUE.com Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made substantial strides in recent years, with one of its most ...

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

By combining soft materials, cloud-scale simulation, and learning from human motion, researchers are teaching robots to grasp ...

On Christmas Eve, the 24th, the first-floor lobby of AgiBot’s Shanghai headquarters—the world’s top humanoid (human-shaped) ...

Modern militaries are facing a growing challenge: how to carry out dangerous missions in threat-saturated environments ...

Why can’t a robot do the dishes? Well, it can, but maybe not as well or as cheaply as we’d hoped. More than once, I have started a robotics article with an appeal to the Jetsons tv show of the late ...

At ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab, engineers have created ANYmal-D, a four-legged robot that can play badminton with people. This project brings together robotics, artificial intelligence and sports ...

Today, we can focus on the minute details of making robots effective because engineers have been involved in making them work for a long time. One of the earliest was “Eric,” a robot developed in 1928 ...

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