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Will the future be humane and livable? Will it be fair and just? What values can guide us? MIT faculty offer practical, inspiring, clear-eyed views in a new series on "Ethics, Computing, and AI."

The new IDTechEx report, ‘Electric Vehicles and Robotics for Mining 2020-2030’ shows how electric vehicles and robotics progress to the....

The vacuum cleaner was making its pre-programmed rounds when it sucked in the dog's tail as the poor animal yelped in horror.

Founded in 2022, Figure AI has developed a general-purpose robot, called Figure 01, that looks and moves like a human.

The current pandemic has seen an uptick in virtual social gatherings, online business meetings and even streamed live concerts. And though our smartphones and laptops can be used for such things, many of us have sought to buy dedicated webcams, only to find out of stock notices posted by retailers.

The company's chip-making robot "Chippy" was too cumbersome to clean

Combining solar and pedal power should get you through most outages

Back in 2011, a movie called 'Real Steel' hit theaters. It was all about boxing robots going after each other in both official and underground fights, throwing punches left and right as their handlers were gunning for the ultimate title.

Robot cat girl doll whose head is equipped with Khadas VIM3 SBC to control motors, chatting, and run AI-accelerated computer vision algorithms

Panama City-based Medcom is using robotic cameras from Telemetrics to help it to reduce operating costs and increase production of TV sports content.

With the rapid-paced rise of AI in everyday life, nothing, not even the traditional farmer, is untouched by the technology.

People with hand amputations experience difficult daily life challenges, often leading to lifelong use of a prosthetic hands and services.

Gita — Italian for "trip" — hopes to be a 28-pound solution to a 5,000-pound problem. 

While the robot does not officially have a name, the store manager of Woodman's Brooks Tellock said it's most often called Woody for its "hat" on top, and a play on the word Woodman's.

Not to be outdone, this week Switzerland-based MSC Cruises announced an all-new amusement ride coming to its newest ship, MSC Seascape. Robotron, a robotic

Here is a jelly-inspired underwater robot that can be used to collect waste from the bottom of the ocean. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for

Scientific Reports - Brain-computer interface for robot control with eye artifacts for assistive applications

While there are now a number of robotic hands that can grasp objects, it's usually impossible to change a grasped object's orientation within the hand without releasing it. A new robotic hand is able to do so, however, via its rolling fingers.

After a summer of hazy skies and wildfires across Canada, CMU researchers are working to develop drones to better combat the fires.

Depending on how paranoid you are, this research from Stanford and Google will be either terrifying or fascinating. A machine learning agent intended to transform aerial images into street maps and back was found to be cheating by hiding information it would need later in "a nearly imperceptible, h…

Seattle-based Picnic has revised the user interface, assembly, and hygiene elements of its pizza-making robot and hired industry veterans.

Most robots are preprogrammed to perform specific functions, but Figure's humanoid Figure 01 machine — that learns by watching and corrects its own mistakes — might upend the field.

Swiss researchers are working on an environmental monitoring robot named Avocado that's been inspired by abseiling spiders. The fruit-shaped bot uses a winch and rotors to lower itself through the canopy and gather data on life in the treetops.