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A demo shows the bot learning how to roll a 12-sided shape with its fingers.

U.S. companies installed more robots last year than ever before, as cheaper and more flexible machines put them within reach of businesses of all sizes and in more corners of the economy beyond their traditional foothold in car plants.

Researchers have developed a next-generation bionic hand that allows amputees to regain their proprioception. The results of the study are the culmination of ten years of robotics research.

The NASA Mars InSight lander is ready to begin taking the Red Planet's temperature, thanks to its heat probe, nicknamed a "mole."

A fast food AI platform is taking orders at a drive-thru in Colorado, and it could be the latest sign that restaurants are prepared to lean on automation.

VW and Ford may be serious about partnering on self-driving cars. Wall Street Journal sources claim VW has tentatively agreed to invest a total of $1.

Agility Robotics has unleashed a new model that joins the exclusive club of humanoid robots. "Digit" is the company's first bipedal robot to have fou

Robots and AI are redefining the rules for business execution and organizational agility. Investment in new technology is driven foremost by the goals increasing execution capacity (scalability) and organizational agility. Seeking more, faster, and most often with fewer personnel

NASA is ready to put its drone traffic management system to the ultimate test and has chosen Nevada and Texas as its final testing sites. The agency, togethe

Snake robots might come in handy for surgery, search-and-rescue missions, and even space exploration—but they’re nothing without the slithering serpents that inspire their design.

The University of Cambridge has launched a new center focused on finding ways to use AI to address problems with the environment.

Here are some unconventional examples of how collaborative robots can serve in areas beyond manufacturing, pick-and-place operations, and machine tending.

Most professional service robots are semi-autonomous or fully autonomous robots that have some mobility and interact with people, usually in a retail, hospitality, healthcare, warehouse or fulfillment setting

SPANISH robots are set to branch out into food and drink when the country’s first ever restaurant run entirely by machines opens in Madrid this year. The

About 20 years ago, a medical device startup called Intuitive Surgical debuted the da Vinci robot and changed surgical practices in operating rooms across the United States. The da Vinci ushered in the first age of robotic-assisted surgical procedures with a promise of greater accuracy and quicker …

Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 just touched down on the surface of Ryugu for the third time to collect samples after firing a bullet at its surface.

The robot, Xin Xiaomeng, comes after state media outlet Xinhua unveiled an AI male anchor in November.

The firm that won an international competition to design a robotics museum in Seoul plans to have robots "in charge" of the construction.

A new study from Zurich demonstrates that people learned new rowing skills faster when a robot taught them how to do it.

Want your morning coffee and pastry prepared by robot? Bbox, a new coffee shop in downtown Berkeley, California, lets customers place their order by app and then uses cutting-edge robots to take care of the rest. Here's how it works -- and what it means for the future of cafes as we know them.

In this roundup of industrial exoskeletons, we look at multiple companies developing them and how they could make assistive technology cheaper.

​It was a couple of years ago that we first heard about the Eelume, an eel-like robot designed to perform underwater maintenance and inspections. Well, the latest version of the device, known as the EELY500, is about to begin sea trials in Norway.

Hundreds of orange robots zoom and whiz back and forth like miniature bumper cars—but instead of colliding, they're following a carefully plotted path to transport thousands of items ordered from online giant Amazon.

We should not be creating conscious, humanoid agents but an entirely new sort of entity, rather like oracles, with no conscience, no fear of death, no distracting loves and hates.