China already manufactures humanoid robots by the thousands. A new generation of U.S. start-ups is betting that there is still time to compete.

The human hand is a dexterous and versatile machine. Scientists have conventionally tried to replicate these traits in robots by copying the biological mechanics of the hand, resulting in complex and ...

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

Students, staff, and visitors at Old Dominion University may notice some high-tech additions zipping around campus: food delivery robots. In a partnership with Grubhub, ODU has rolled out a fleet of ...

The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners.

Tired of pushing or driving around a lawn mower on a hot summer day? It might be time to let a robot handle your yardwork to ...

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Even if you live just a few blocks from the grocery store, odds are you don’t walk there to do your shopping. After all, it’s no fun to carry your bags home all by yourself. That’s the problem that ...

In what might be one of the most underappreciated technological breakthroughs of our time, Alphabet's Google DeepMind has accomplished something deceptively difficult -- teaching a robot to tie ...