By reusing knowledge from previous tasks and applying it to new ones, the robot can generalize far more efficiently, which is ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

Xpeng's humanoid robot moves so realistically that crowds believed it was fake, marking a major advancement in robotics technology ahead of 2026 commercial launch.

Step inside the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, and you find yourself in a space that is part children's nursery, part ...

There is also a dance studio, complete with a wood floor and large mirrors. Here scientists record the movements of human ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognize objects, navigate ...

Now that artificial intelligence has mastered almost everything we do online, it needs help learning how we physically move around in the real world. A growing global army of trainers is helping it ...

By combining soft materials, cloud-scale simulation, and learning from human motion, researchers are teaching robots to grasp ...

California startups are building robots to help with fold laundry and other tedious tasks as the race to dominate artificial intelligence intensifies against countries such as China.

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

At ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab, engineers have created ANYmal-D, a four-legged robot that can play badminton with people. This project brings together robotics, artificial intelligence and sports ...

We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving ...