The newest employee at a Tokyo 7-Eleven works through the night without a single break. It silently stocks drinks and other ...

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...

Social companion robots are no longer just science fiction. For example, after a children's reading robot became inactive, most households chose to keep it.

Many lonely people would rather deal with a robot than interact with an actual human, according to research co-led by ...

AI-powered robot Nurabot is designed to help nurses with repetitive tasks, in a bid to reduce their workload and mitigate global healthcare staff shortages.

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Explore how industrial robots and service robots are moving beyond factories, expanding into hospitals, homes, and customer ...

Looking back on his days as a Panther, Ph.D. graduate Paulo Padrão discusses how he and his research team used AI and digital ...

Agility Robotics opened the world's first factory for humanoid robots in Salem. The bipedal robot, named Digit, is designed for warehouse and logistics tasks. Robot history was made in an industrial ...

Outside of robots, so many other devices – even those you would never expect – utilised artificial intelligence. I came ...

For Elon Musk, the future of Tesla isn't its global fleet of EVs. It's Optimus, the humanoid robot designed to help humans ...

Surgeons in Chile performed a pioneering gallbladder operation with the support of a system that combines robotic technology ...