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Erica will be Hollywood's first AI actor.

Skygauge Robotics has developed a drone that can fly close enough to structures for industrial inspections, saving people from unsafe conditions.

Footage has emerged of Boston Dynamics robotic dog, called Spot and released commercially last week, patrolling a SpaceX test site in the US.

Pollen-carrying soap bubbles could provide a simple and effective method of artificial pollination

Most autonomous drones are capable of taking off and landing and flying in straight lines, but scientists at the University of Zurich have developed a new navigation algorithm that enables unmanned quadcopters to pull off some impressive acrobatics, a training pathway they hope can help boost their ...

A machine learning algorithm applied to data from smart home devices could detect behavioral differences between healthy individuals and people with dementia

Although many fossils are simply lying exposed on the soil's surface, finding all of them would require a great deal of walking over varying terrain. A new autonomous hexacopter drone could help, as it uses a laser to hunt for fossils at night.

US-based company Grote specializes in automating production lines that slice, fill and cut sandwiches. Until recently, the upper and lower halves of the sandwich were put together manually. Now, Gr…

Remote combat vehicles could escort convoys could provide backup for tanks and other armored vehicles.

IEEE Spectrum readers share how they’ve been staying productive without access to their labs

The Robot Report, the leading site for development news, has launched The Robot Report Podcast, which each week chats with robotics leaders.

When stroke patients are recovering from upper-body paralysis, therapists often guide their arms through the lost motions, helping their nervous system to "relearn" the actions. The task can be a demanding one, though, which is where the Harmony SHR setup comes in.

The algorithm -- known as Motion2Vec -- was trained on footage of medics using da Vinci surgical robots to stitch up wounds

NEW YORK: Nasa is about to take to the air on another planet.

Ford will try to reduce range anxiety for buyers of its electric Mustang Mach-E by predicting the range more precisely. It unveiled a new feature called Intelligent Range, which will calculate how far you can go based on factors like driving behavior, weather forecasts and crowdsourced data from oth...

Build With Robots has used Fetch Robotics' technology to build an autonomous mobile disinfection robot that is spraying the Albquerque airport each night.

The motion capture technology that enables the fluid movements of your favorite video game character or lets a coach assess the biomechanics of an elite athlete is incredibly powerful, but requires expensive equipment to recreate the complex movement of subjects in digital form. Scientists at the Un...

The app uses signal processing and AI algorithms to examine changes in the body that can affect speech

Bringing together the transformative power of AI and 5G technologies is essential to creating the next generation of high-compute, low-power robots and drones for the consumer, enterprise, defense, industrial, and professional service sectors.

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Researchers at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland have managed to teach simulated humanoid robots how to move like humans through human demonstrations.

Sony’s robotic Aibo pup continues to learn new tricks. Thanks to a new software update, the android companion will now predict when you come home and sit patiently at the front door. Or that’s the idea, anyway.

Biofuel cells can generate enough watts for fitness trackers and health monitors