The robot, a pair of disembodied arms with crablike pincers at the end, wasn’t supposed to pick up the bag. It had been told to do a single tedious job: open plastic bags on a conveyor belt and stuff ...

This next-generation network technology won't just make our phones faster; it'll unlock new capabilities in robots, turning them into all-sensing, always-learning fleets. Katie is a UK-based news ...

They grew up dialing rotary phones — and now they’re opening the door to robot roommates. That’s the vision powering the booming AgeTech industry, as companies ...

When researchers asked more than 1,000 Americans to assign colors to robots according to the robot’s job, they found that biases familiar from the human workplace resurfaced—and that the people making ...

Engineers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, also known as KAIST, built a humanoid that runs, jumps and even moonwalks with smooth control. In a recent field test, the robot ...

I’ve never enjoyed cutting the grass. For years, I struggled with an old inherited gas mower that refused to die but often refused to start. Then I had a cheap electric mower with a cord that I had to ...

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Physical AI is emerging as one of the next major industrial battlegrounds, with Japan’s push driven more by necessity than anything else. With workforces shrinking and pressure mounting to sustain ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Four-legged robot dog, powered by AI have been patrolling the streets, ...

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build molecular-scale devices. By borrowing ideas from traditional robotics and combining them ...

A report at MIT Technology Review showcases the kind of work these gig workers are doing, focusing on the work of Zeus, a Nigerian medical student. He makes extra money recording robot training data ...

Robotic machine-learning company Generalist has announced GEN-1, a new physical AI system that it says “crosses into production-level success rates” on “a broad range of physical skills” that used to ...