As humanoid robots move from labs into homes, stores, and warehouses, a simple question is gaining urgency: who teaches them how to behave around people? Companies are testing machines that can walk, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A specialized training facility in China has taken on its first cohort of 'robot students'. Located in Hefei—capital of the ...

Teaching a robot arm to pick up a new object used to require thousands of practice runs. Google DeepMind says it has cut that ...

Today's robotic world is a fairly advanced one, with a wide variety of machines capable of doing a whole lot of amazing things. Yet our world is far from having reached the peak of this industry while ...

Exploring a new way to teach robots, Princeton researchers have found that human-language descriptions of tools can accelerate the learning of a simulated robotic arm lifting and using a variety of ...

Why it matters: Ever since Boston Dynamics first showcased its famous legged robots in 2013, numerous organizations have introduced machines that autonomously perform various professional and ...

We’re fascinated with robots doing human things, from Elektro chain-smoking its way through the 1939 World’s Fair to the Turk automaton that was beating people at chess during the 18th and 19th ...

A new robot dog in Hungary is turning heads, wagging its digital tail, and teaching kids how to care for animals. The Unitree Go2 robot dog is more than just a tech toy. It is a full-on lesson in ...

A Brown University study shows dogs may help robots find objects using gestures and words. Discover how researchers trained machines to understand human signals and why this breakthrough could improve ...

Iman Soltani is developing active vision technology that would allow robots to change their line of sight and viewpoint to complete tasks instead of relying on multiple cameras. Here, Soltani (left) ...

This roundup highlights the latest robotics innovations aimed at improving throughput, simplifying deployment and helping ...