Harnessing waste metal through investment in advanced recycling technologies, as well as building adjacent manufacturing ...

Hospitals and senior living centers are leading the adoption of service robots that handle basic support tasks. Experts ...

Humanoid robot training is booming around the world. Tech companies are rushing to build the robots for a market projected to ...

It sounds like something from a sci-fi film - but some scientists believe this clever new tech could help alleviate strains ...

University of Chicago computer scientist Sarah Sebo is programming robots to give empathetic responses and perform nonverbal ...

Think of actuators as the robot’s muscles —the technology that enables humanoids to move. Actuators come in three types: ...

A new study has found that a robot’s feedback during a collaborative task can influence the feeling of closeness between the ...

Teddy Warner, 19, has always been interested in robotics. His family was in the industry, and he says he “grew up” working in a machinist shop while in high school. Now Warner is building a robotics ...

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Humans no longer have exclusive control over training social robots to interact effectively, thanks to a new study. The study introduces a new simulation method that lets researchers test their social ...

In 1982, personal computers were beige, boxy, and built for engineers. They were powerful, but uninviting. Few people knew what they were for, or why they might need one. It took more than just better ...

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...