Robots are good at a few simple things. They can lift and carry huge objects, fly around like dragonflies, and murder our families while we watch, their cold circuits flitting with nascent feelings of ...

IN a vast warehouse, three of Amazon’s newest recruits are resting with their arms behind their heads, legs splayed out. With the flick of a button that marks the end of break time, they roll up to a ...

A Walmart employee waits for the Alphabot system to expel carts filled with customers' online orders at one of the retailer's micro-fulfillment centers. (Photo by Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via ...

Automotive suppliers and others who manufacture composite parts can increase their production by as much as 7% with Dieffenbacher’s new, fully automated Fibercut cutting and stacking system featuring ...

To a robot, it might look like something from a horror film. Parts — a battery, circuit boards and wiring —are arrayed in pieces on a white lab bench. Metallic arms and legs lay inert on nearby ...

A new experiment shows snail-inspired swarm robots stacking and adapting to move objects across gaps without fixed structures.

Machine learning and accelerated simulation are driving humanoid robotic developments Credit: Nvidia The robots are back. And this time they look far more like Karel Capek’s idea than the mechanical ...