What started out as a response to labor shortages in poultry processing plants during the COVID-19 pandemic has turned into a robotics system that can learn by imitating human movements to handle ...

The machines are built from autonomous modules that can be snapped together in a variety of forms ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have created a new kind of robot that can adapt, recover from damage, and keep moving even after being broken apart. The machines, called “legged metamachines,” ...

Are we all material—tissues and veins—or is there some nonmaterial substance, some essence, that transcends the corporeal ...

Developed by Professor Sam Kriegman, AI-designed metamachines can run in the wild, recover from damage, and transform into new shapes.

Researchers at Penn and the University of Michigan have developed the world’s smallest, fully autonomous robots. The health ...

Metro has spoken to leading war experts about the role humanoid robots could play in future battlefields or whether they’ll remain a dystopian fantasy. Robots are already playing a vital role in ...

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.

On her smartphone map, she watched the tiny dot scurrying toward her Fort Lauderdale address in real time. Then her phone buzzed with an alert: “Your food delivery robot is here!” Karla Joan ...

Stellantis is an automotive manufacturing company that operates 34 assembly plants and other facilities across the United States. One of those facilities is the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shanghai-based DroidUp unveiled Moya, a fully biometric humanoid robot built to look and feel almost human, underscoring progress ...

For decades, automation reshaped American industry with little drama. Robotic machines took over dangerous and repetitive tasks in auto plants. Machines like laser screeds transformed concrete work, ...