Firms are working to make the motors that drive robots more efficient and cheaper.

Many robots today are able to follow verbal instructions. However, the robot first has to be programmed with software code that allows it to respond to those instructions in some predetermined way, ...

A NEW TWIST ON AN OLD TEST. People are likely to perform better cognitively when under the supervision of a “mean” robot than a “nice” one, according to a study published in Science Robotics on ...

In an effort to help short-staffed custodians, one of the largest school districts in Washington invested over $1 million in ...

Changing robot standards provide an opportunity for designers of cobots to deliver improved safety and greater functionality, ...

Yann LeCun challenges humanoid robots built on precomputed demos, arguing for explicit world models so teams build adaptable ...

It was January 25th of 1979, at an unassuming Michigan Ford Motor Company factory. Productivity over the past years had been ...

At a glance Expert's Rating Pros ・Powerful vacuuming ・Effective mopping ・Avoids all obstacles Cons ・Dust bag in base can’t be ...

Moscow -- Russian media say a contraption presented by Russian state television as a high-tech robot was in fact a man in a commercially available robot costume. The video was shot at a high-tech show ...