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After years of trial and error, a humanoid robot built by Toyota (yes, the car company!) set a Guinness World Record for its impressive basketball shooting abilities. The robot, known as CUE3, earner its record by sinking 2,020 free throws in a row, without ever missing a shot.

Construction companies are developing an AI system that predicts worksite injuries—an example of the growing use of workplace surveillance.

The Raspberry Pi foundation has announced the fourth version of its miniature budget computer. The Raspberry Pi 4 keeps the same form-factor and $35 starting price of its predecessor, but it has improved specs across the board.

SUSANNA Reid was freaked out by a robot that LOOKS like her and even speaks on Good Morning Britain today. The robot sported brunette hair and large brown eyes just like pretty Susanna and was able…

Meet the Airbot One robot: a duct inspection and cleaning robot that is propelled by 2 powerful motors.

It is expected that such robots will not only boost productivity but will also provide advanced smart assistance to humans in the coming years.

But designing ’bots that can do it is hard

Robots that can rapidly plan out their movements could accelerate factory automation—and help keep fragile humans safe.

This whisker sensing system can detect air pressure from objects even before they make physical contact

iRobot, the company behind the Roomba, is about to do more than vacuum your house, mop your floors and mow the lawn. Today the company announced that it'

Researchers have created the first noninvasive mind-controlled robot arm that exhibits the kind of smooth motion that previously required a brain implant.

Washing dishes is a problem that robots can solve, at least in commercial kitchens

North American sales of machine vision components and systems that provide vision intelligence to robots and other devices declined 4.5% over the first quarter of 2019

Researchers at Swinburne have developed a collaborative robot system to automatically treat back, neck and head pain caused by soft tissue injury.

Earlier this year, Stop & Shop and its sister stores, Giant and Martin's, deployed nearly 500 autonomous robots to its grocery stores. In a statement announcing the move, it was hailed as  "one of the most significant deployments of robotics innovation in the grocery retail industry.”

A liquid battery that doubles as hydraulic fluid helps this robot swim for up to 36 hours

A robots-as-a-service option has been launched by Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) to provide leasing alternatives for its autonomous mobile robots.

In the first episode of Savage Builds, Adam Savage tries to build and control an Iron Man flying suit. But he didn't quite figure out the controls.

The Boston Dynamics parody is seriously impressive ... and perhaps a bit ominous.

The BionicWheelBot has eight legs, enabling it to both walk and roll.

Doctors could soon prescribe sex robots to patients with sexual dysfunction to meet their sexual needs, said Dr. Marianne Brandon at the Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society’s Mental Health Symposium.

To the best of our knowledge, this is the fastest an uncrewed road-legal vehicle has ever driven.

This unlikely drone-with-hands creation is the work of Federico Ciccarese, the brains behind YouBionic, a bionic hand project that has evolved far beyond its original remit of offering a pair of 3D-printable robot hands. Check it out in all its slightly unnerving glory.

A new semi-autonomous robot is capable of traveling into a decommissioned nuclear reactor and safely dismantling it, piece by piece.