Many experts believe more general forms of artificial intelligence will be impossible without giving AI a body in the real world. A new approach that allows robots to learn how their body is ...

Roboticists from the nation’s top universities recently created a self-aware mechanical arm that taught itself how to move. Hop Lipson shows an audience the Self-Aware robotic arm he's been involved ...

We need to start thinking of robots as a modern tool that we can optimally design for specific use cases rather than a panacea to solve every challenge.

A few short months ago, almost every robot made by the hundreds of companies working on humanoid robots could charitably be described as slow, topping out at around three mph. Walking was on the edge ...

Helix, the AI brain powering Figure’s humanoid robots, has been upgraded to its most advanced full-body control system to date. Unlike earlier models limited to upper-body tasks, Helix 02 uses a ...

Thanks to the many ongoing projects in this field, we're used by now to seeing humanoid robots performing all sorts of impressive, almost human-like tasks and movements. But it's not until you see one ...

What would you do with a robot body double? Film an advertisement may not be at the top of your list, but it was for YouTuber Tom Scott. His latest video shows him ...

Cut most robots in half, and you’re left with expensive debris. Cut this one apart, and the pieces just keep walking. These impressive new robot concepts are what researchers from Northwestern ...

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build ...