What just happened? Researchers from King's College London have figured out how to give robots complex instructions without using any electricity at all, not even through batteries. The key is a new ...

Engineers have worked out how to give robots complex instructions without electricity for the first time which could free up more space in the robotic ‘brain’ for them to ‘think’. Mimicking how some ...

Embodied intelligence race is redefining robotics, and China’s X Square Robot competes with open-source and proprietary humanoid models.

Humanoid robots may soon be able to handle rugged trails as well as people do, thanks to new research from the University of Michigan. A team there has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system ...

Google is only the latest to fuse large language models with robots. The trend has big implications. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like ...

The big picture: While companies continue to improve robotic hardware, developing AI software to truly bring these machines to life has remained an elusive goal. This is especially disappointing given ...