For all their technological brilliance, from navigating distant planets to performing complex surgery, robots still struggle ...

A robotic hand can pick up 24 different objects with human-like movements that emerge spontaneously, thanks to compliant materials and structures rather than programming. When you reach out your hand ...

Elon Musk is kinda worried about AI. (“AI is a fundamental existential risk for human civilization and I don’t think people fully appreciate that,” as he put it in 2017.) So he helped found a research ...

UC Berkeley recently released a video demonstrating its latest creation, the Humanoid Table TEnnis Robot (HITTER), playing a ...

It’s quite common for humans — especially those who work in manufacturing — to tie a knot, strip the casing off a cable, insert a pin in a hole or use a hand tool such as a drill. They may seem like ...

Somewhere in North London, in an anonymous office block on a nondescript road in the U.K.’s capital city, a robot hand is tapping out a message on a keyboard. “Hello, World” it writes, a geeky ...

The new algorithm could help robots make safer, smarter decisions around humans, even amidst the greatest uncertainties.

In both the consumer and industrial worlds, scientists are working to make robots more human like. But while there are some common goals—and even similar applications—the vision can be quite different ...

Last year, a friend of mine invited me to take his Tesla TSLA for a spin to try its self-driving features, called Autopilot. My friend knew I research the ways that humans come to trust — and distrust ...