New kind of AI model gives robots a visual imagination Video stills show a robot gripper generalizing its knowledge to perform specific actions in response to prompts, such as picking up a screwdriver ...

Amazon has formed a new home robotics team and is hiring for a “new-to-world robot product,” according to CNBC’s analysis of ...

Mechanical engineer Raphael Zufferey's lab at MIT contains a giant tank filled with bright turquoise water, an array of fans that can whip up a powerful wind, and small flying robots perched ...

AMD’s Mark Papermaster explains how robotics requires faster reflexes, power efficiency, safety, and integrated computing ...

Can robots be kind? This is one of many questions we will want to know the answer as robots continue to develop. Robots will be much more prevalent in coming years—in industry, health care, ...

Inspecting the underwater foundations of a bridge is one of the more hazardous jobs in infrastructure maintenance. Divers fight tidal currents in near-zero visibility, operate high-pressure water ...

As a new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like "eyebrows" and offering to shake your hand with its grippers, it looks ...

Robots are now entering the job of pouring concrete for tunnels. The important point in this news is not that 'people will disappear,' but rather how to divide the process of repeatedly sending heavy ...

The best robot pool cleaners for 2026, why the old kind runs on your pool pump, and the repairability question nobody asks.

Inspired by diving birds, roboticists built the lightweight machines to move from water to air. The design may one day lead to robots that can... A new kind of robot swims the seas and soars the skies ...