Scientists achieve major robotics milestone as robot learns 1,000 different physical tasks in single day, potentially ...

Picture a robot. What comes to mind? Perhaps a droid from Star Wars or The Jetsons: a machine that can move, speak and perform tasks all by itself. Or maybe your imagination jumps to humanoid robots à ...

Freaked-out viewers are hoping the engineers quit while they’re a head. Robots are looking far less robotic as time goes on. Now, a Chinese robotics company is alarming viewers after unveiling the ...

Robots are showing up in more places than ever before. From hospitals to homes, workplaces to classrooms, machines with artificial intelligence are becoming part of everyday life. But even as they ...

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Parallax Worlds, a startup building hyper-realistic virtual simulations to stress-test robots before deployment, today announced it raised $4 million in a seed round. Developing and deploying robots ...

Life-size dolls. Amusement park automatons. Realistic robots. Why do some of these humanlike forms elicit positive responses, while others seem disturbing and downright creepy? Are humans hard-wired ...