In the thick of summer—when pools are in constant use, temperatures are high, and debris builds up by the hour—cleaning ...

Robots will also be helpful in children learning languages because they will allow a degree of language immersion at home that children don't normally receive in the classroom, Admoni says.

It’s easy to believe that robots are stealing jobs from human workers and drastically disrupting the labor market; after all, you’ve likely heard that chatbots make more efficient customer service ...

Robots can look like all sorts of things, but they’re often more fun if you make them look like some kind of charming animal. That’s precisely what [Ananya], [Laurence] and [Shao] did when ...

Boston Dynamic's legged robots won the internet by doing parkour and dancing to classic R&B. The company's founder Marc Raibert now leads an institute trying to make the machines more independent.

Robots allow humans to perform hands-on tasks that require empathy and sympathy. The K5 security robot is the most well-known product of California-based robotics and security technology company ...

We've had robots for decades, and in the next five years, autonomous robots will make real-time decisions in dynamic environments. Here's what can we expect from what AI and robots can do together.

Knightscope says on its website that technology like its robots are "known to be effective in reducing crime," citing data from the City of Huntington Park Police Department in California that ...

More than 20 two-legged robots competed in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon in China on Saturday, and – though technologically impressive – they were far from outrunning their human ...

Robots sculpt marble in Italy, sparking worries about future of art form | 60 Minutes After two back surgeries and 40 years sculpting marble, Vermont-based artist Richard Erdman decided to add a ...

Humanoid robots that talk, perceive social and emotional cues, elicit empathy and trust, trigger psychological responses through eye contact and who trick us into the false belief that they have ...

Robots have loomed over the future of labor for decades—at least since robotic arms started replacing auto workers on the assembly line in the early 1960s. Optimists say that more robots will ...