Cockroaches have some of the worst PR in the animal kingdom. With a better agent, their story could be that of a hardy insect that has successfully thrived on every continent except Antarctica.

Figure, maker of the humanoid robot Figure 02, unveiled its new Helix AI in a video showing two robots working together to put away groceries. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer ...

Therefore, in this study, we investigated the effects of robot-initiated touch behaviors on perceived emotions (valence and arousal) and the feeling of kawaii, a common Japanese adjective for ...

The company will focus on three key areas of robotics - chips that do sensing, chips that calculate which action for a robot to take next and chips that can control a robot's motors and actuators.

Now, a research team led by scientists from UC Santa Barbara and TU Dresden has developed a material-like robot collective that behaves like a smart material, capable of changing shape and ...

Musk and Rogan talked about A.I.-powered sex robots. Improbably, the opening minutes of the interview featured Rogan and Musk, who is a special adviser to the president and who has an office in ...

Here's what to expect from both projects. Part of that vision reportedly involves robots — a mobile humanoid unit, and a largely stationary anthropomorphic robot. The goal of these two apparent ...

Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side — a maneuver used to change ...

A humanoid robot at a Chinese festival recently malfunctioned, charging at a crowd and sparking fresh concerns about AI safety. While organisers dismissed it as a "robotic failure," the incident is ...

The global market for home robotics is projected to have reached $20 billion, with about 75% of household robots focused on cleaning and security tasks, a trend that is expected to shift toward health ...

A hot potato: The prospect of humanoid robots building more humanoid robots sounds like something from science fiction, but an Austin-based company has just signed a deal that could eventually ...

Figure's Helix AI brain enables robots to see and learn to do things in the world around them – and work in tandem Figure It'll race against OpenAI-backed 1X, whose sad beige humanoid is ...