Humanoid machines slowly picked up litter and sorted out bouquets of flowers on Tuesday in a demonstration of how robots might eventually be used to

Robots are machines that can automatically perform both simple and complex actions. They are often programmed by a computer, but there's no single definition of a robot. Robots include a wide variety of machines, such as the giant arms used to make cars ...

Teaching a robot arm to pick up a new object used to require thousands of practice runs. Google DeepMind says it has cut that number to roughly 100, a shift that could reshape how quickly machines adapt in warehouses,

SoftBank's humanoid robot "Pepper" can lead funerals. Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO/Alamy Live News News of a Japanese robot conducting Buddhist funerals got us thinking about how our robot-filled future is fast becoming our robot-filled present. Robots ...

Backed by Alibaba, ByteDance, Xiaomi, and Meituan, X Square is already moving toward real-world testing. The company said it plans to deploy Wall-B systems in everyday homes within 35 days, an aggressive timeline that reflects growing pressure to demonstrate real utility.

Iman Soltani is developing active vision technology that would allow robots to change their line of sight and viewpoint to complete tasks instead of relying on multiple cameras. Here, Soltani (left) and Andrew Lee, a second-year Ph.D. student in computer ...

Researchers have unveiled a new method that lets robots handle irregular, curved objects with