Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Angelica Lim, an associate professor of computing science at Simon Fraser University, creates algorithms designed to help robots ...

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. Adding robots to therapy can help autistic children develop foundational social skills like taking turns, making eye contact, and ...

Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics are bringing Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 to Spot, adding embodied reasoning for inspections, ...

The vision of robots as true partners in our daily work has remained just that—a vision. While we've seen an explosion of ...

Just like bees, the individual robots in this simulation have no master plan. Simply by responding to local cues, they are able to construct honeycomb-like structures. The method could presage a new ...

Hands move constantly during conversation. They signal emotion, stress a point, and form full languages such as American Sign Language. Behind this everyday motion lies a complex challenge. Each human ...

On Saturday, I drove down to the event center at San Jose State University and watched a bunch of squat, wheeled robots compete in a strange game which involved both hurling Frisbee-style discs into ...

Asparagus is one of the most labor-intensive crops on the market. Harvesting demands extreme precision—the terrain is uneven, and the stalks are thin and of varying length. These challenges inhibit ...

In most of the example videos published by the company, Gen-1 is seen running on a pair of robotic arms, but that's not all ...