Friendly home robots have been the dream of sci-fi for a long time. Docile, helpful machines that do your laundry, take out the trash, maybe make dinner, and clean up afterward too. But if robots are ...

Humanoid robots compete in football matches at RoboCup in Incheon, South Korea, showcasing advances in robotics as spectators watch the action. Humanoid robots chase the ball, score goals and ...

Swift has been circling Earth for 21 years. Without a rescue mission assembled in just nine months, it would burn up by October. A rescue spacecraft has blasted into orbit on a mission to save a NASA ...

In reality, an entire fleet of garbage trucks is crisscrossing the city, whisking away waste and keeping communities ...

Dodge past the live onstage coding sessions, AI refresher courses, an obstacle course of gizmos, round people walking round with glowing green silent-disco-style headphones blaring UN panel ...

Engineers have developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by expanding and contracting -- just like a human muscle. To demonstrate their new device, called an actuator, the ...

When humanoid robots dominated the stage of last year’s Spring Festival Gala with sleek dance routines, Ai Lin saw more than a spectacle. He saw a business. Soon after, the e-commerce livestreamer in ...

Japan's industry ministry says it aims to introduce about 10 million AI-equipped robots across 18 sectors by 2040 amid the country's growing labor shortage. Physical AI, which can autonomously respond ...