Care robots are transforming how societies respond to aging population needs by supporting independence, safety, and emotional well-being. Elderly robotics now plays a central role in assisting ...

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build molecular-scale devices. By borrowing ideas from traditional robotics and combining them ...

When researchers asked more than 1,000 Americans to assign colors to robots according to the robot’s job, they found that biases familiar from the human workplace resurfaced—and that the people making ...

I’ve never enjoyed cutting the grass. For years, I struggled with an old inherited gas mower that refused to die but often refused to start. Then I had a cheap electric mower with a cord that I had to ...

The robot, a pair of disembodied arms with crablike pincers at the end, wasn’t supposed to pick up the bag. It had been told to do a single tedious job: open plastic bags on a conveyor belt and stuff ...

Two delivery robots reportedly crashed into bus shelters in Chicago this week, shattering glass panels in separate incidents just days apart. One crash, captured on video Sunday, showed a delivery ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Robotics “will soon be the largest market that we have ever seen”, says Mark Minevich, an AI ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Delivery robots are causing problems in Chicago. Two of them are now being blamed for damage in the city. Mayor Brandon Johnson is talking about their use and recent incidents. Two ...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) introduced legislation Thursday that would ban the federal government from obtaining or operating unmanned Chinese robots.

First lady Melania Trump walked side by side with a sleek, black-and-white faceless figure Wednesday during an education summit she hosted at the White House. Despite its appearance, it wasn’t an ...

The first lady, Melania Trump, believes that more children should be educated by “humanoid educators.” Melania Trump, the first lady, with Figure 3, a humanoid robot developed by Figure AI, an ...