In an Indian town, workers fold towels while wearing cameras, providing data to teach AI robots how to move and operate in physical spaces. Tech giants Tesla, Boston Dynamics and Nvidia race to build ...

For decades, futurists have promised that robots will transform society, yet that still feels like a distant prospect. In this episode, recorded live at the “Web Summit” technology conference in ...

A growing workforce of robot controllers is teaching humanoids to move like people so they can work in factories and homes. The humanoid robots are being taught how to do basic tasks: pouring coffee, ...

A robot that follows you around the house may sound a little strange at first. Yet Colin Angle, the cofounder of iRobot and one of the people behind Roomba, is betting that the next big home robot may ...

The 4-foot-tall humanoid robot that’s in front of me seems, quite honestly, a bit drunk. It leaps from one leg to the other, waving its arms. After 30 seconds or so it abruptly stops, then strides ...

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world. Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the ...

Viral mishaps underscore a big challenge for robot makers: How can they ensure a humanoid doesn’t hurt a human?

Swiss scientists have published research showing AI-informed robots can learn how to self correct and teach other robots how to behave. It raises questions of consciousness in artificial intelligence.