Elon Musk, whose electric automaker Tesla is building its own humanoid called Optimus, has said that the robots will be “the ...

The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior. His strategy: Give them a goal of making us more powerful.

MIT professor Daniela Rus explains how AI-powered robots are being trained to safely assist in homes and daily life.

In both the consumer and industrial worlds, scientists are working to make robots more human like. But while there are some common goals—and even similar applications—the vision can be quite ...

OSU researchers Bill Smart and Naomi Fitter interact with a Quori robot in this provided photo. The two are leading a project to build and distribute 50 of the standardized robots throughout the ...

This may be the first empathetic utterance by a commercial machine. In the late 1990s the Boston company SpeechWorks International began supplying companies with customer-service software programmed ...

Here’s one way to tackle the dreaded task of assembling your Ikea furniture: Get a robot to do it for you. With some off-the-shelf robotics hardware and a substantial amount of programming, ...

A team of scientists unveiled a robot face covered with a delicate layer of living skin that heals itself and crinkles into a smile in hopes of developing more human-like cyborgs.

The robot completes about a stitch a minute, a conservative pace slightly slower than a human surgeon. The tests so far have shown more consistency than the humans.