From drones and humanoid robots to collaborative “cobots” designed to work alongside humans, sophisticated machines are ...
What makes a robot truly intelligent? Is it the ability to solve complex equations in milliseconds or something more human-like—such as recognizing a misplaced object in a cluttered room or adapting ...
Imagine for a moment that you’re in an auto factory. A robot and a human are working next to each other on the production line. The robot is busy rapidly assembling car doors while the human runs ...
MicroFactory has more than 100 preorders for its general-purpose tabletop robotic factory, which it hopes to start shipping ...
FieldAI, an Irvine, California-based robotics startup, has raised $405 million across multiple previously undisclosed rounds to develop what it calls “foundational embodied AI models” — essentially ...
Robots are delivering to-go orders in cities like Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas. Are we embracing them too quickly — and are they actually helpful?
When I first walked into the spa treatment room I wondered whether I had made a terrible mistake. Even in the glow of a Himalayan salt lamp, my "massage therapist" was giving high-tech dental chair ...
Welcome to this week’s episode of “man-made horrors beyond human comprehension.” A humanoid robot named DeREK had what you might call a “moment” on the floor of a San Francisco robotics lab this week, ...
A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...