Picture a robot. What comes to mind? Perhaps a droid from Star Wars or The Jetsons: a machine that can move, speak and perform tasks all by itself. Or maybe your imagination jumps to humanoid robots à ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. We often imagine robots in spotless factories or research labs—perfectly calibrated, humming ...

Ready for a robot that not only looks human but also acts and reacts like one, expressing emotions like shyness, excitement or friendliness? Disney Research, the innovation powerhouse behind The Walt ...

AMES, Iowa – You may not remember it, but odds are you took a few tumbles during your toddler era. You weren’t alone. Falling, after all, is a natural consequence of learning to crawl, walk, climb and ...

Robots are showing up in more places than ever before. From hospitals to homes, workplaces to classrooms, machines with artificial intelligence are becoming part of everyday life. But even as they ...

In two new papers, UC Berkeley roboticist Ken Goldberg explains why robots are not gaining real-world skills as quickly as AI chatbots are gaining language fluency. UC Berkeley News spoke with ...

Tutor Intelligence Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence-powered warehouse robot workers, said today it has raised $34 million in early funding to accelerate the commercialization of its ...

In real life, robots are pretty simple. They are just, like, an arm putting cars together or what have you. In movies and TV, though, robots have long been intelligent. They’ve had personalities. They ...

Last Friday, I wrote some special coverage for my TAZR Trader members on the SIGGRAPH computer vision event that NVIDIA (NVDA) attended in Vancouver. I include those notes below under "Robots From The ...