SoftBank's humanoid robot "Pepper" can lead funerals. Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO/Alamy Live News News of a Japanese robot conducting Buddhist funerals got us thinking about how our robot-filled future ...

The Figure 03 is a humanoid robot with a lofty goal. The company that makes it, Figure AI, wants to build a machine in the ...

Robots could soon do daily home tasks on their own. A new method helps them move both arms together and adjust when things change.

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.

Most of the time, robots grabbing the headlines boil down to a machine doing one very specific thing in a very controlled lab, followed by a promise that this somehow changes everything. Normally, I ...

(Reuters) -These robots don't break into a jig or jump, but their ability to do single tasks cheaply and efficiently is attracting investor dollars as focus shifts to function from flash. Far from the ...

Robots that can actually do things are not slick yet, and it's a relief when robotics companies don't hide from that.

Cornell University researchers have developed a new robotic framework powered by artificial intelligence—called RHyME (Retrieval for Hybrid Imitation under Mismatched Execution)—that allows robots to ...

Aug. 20 (UPI) --A humanoid robot can now perform complex tasks with a large behavior model without needing hand programming for each task. Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute announced this ...