WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They’re emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to ...
UK tech company AUAR makes portable micro-factories that it says can produce the wooden frame of a house in a day.
If you want safe robots, then they need to talk to each other, explains a robotics innovator. What’s behind this counter-intuitive idea? In a world informed by sci-fi dystopias, the idea that a safe ...
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has made a bold claim about the future of robots. He has said that Tesla’s humanoid robot, Optimus could one day become the first machine that can make copies of itself ...
Boston Dynamics unveiled its latest Atlas humanoid robot this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and its entire production run for 2026 is already sold and accounted for. And its ...
NEW YORK — As the 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, ...
The robots will be unloading totes full of auto parts from an automated warehouse tugger.
The bleeding edge: Nanomachines were once a distant fantasy of science fiction writers and video games like Deus Ex and Metal Gear Solid. However, recent advances in miniaturization have brought those ...