Embodying surgical robots with next-gen AI can safely augment practice if ethical and regulatory questions are addressed, say ...

For decades, engineers have sculpted robots much like our own physical form, creating machines with faces, limbs, and ...

The robot pauses at the edge of the room as an engineer checks its sensors. Then, with a soft mechanical hum, this humanoid ...

September 15, 2025 — Virginia Tech researchers received a grant worth more than $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to expand robot theater, an after-school program that helps children ...

AI’s concealed labor has repeatedly led us to overestimate the technology. Humanoid robots are entering a similar phase. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI.

BEIJING — South Korea’s obsession with technology has led it to consider what may be the first government-backed ethical code for robots. Already well advanced in considering potential uses for robots ...

Scientists say they've made a key breakthrough that would allow robots to figure out complex tasks on their own, but experts ...

Autonomous robots may sound like sci-fi concepts that are decades away, but large language models and generative AI now allow machines to plan, learn, and think. More than that - the same software ...