The vast Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou stood as a rebuke to U.S. efforts to hem in China’s technology. But the real competition is internal, and profits are hard to find. By Andrew Higgins ...

Elon Musk boasts he will launch a squad of Optimus humanoid robots to Mars aboard his Starship super-capsules, but a leading U.S. robotics scholar predicts their quick demise (Photo credit should read ...

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China is the world’s most dominant power in automating its manufacturing — installing nearly 10 times as many robots in its factories as the United States, according to new data. Last year, more than ...

The renowned roboticist Rodney Brooks has revealed how he believes humanoid robots will develop in the coming years, and his suggestions may surprise you. Brooks, an AI pioneer and entrepreneur known ...

Robots are being put through all kinds of abuse these days. They’re being kicked, punched, shoved, and even dragged by a chain around their neck — all in an apparent effort to teach them how to adapt ...

A lot of the stuff we use today is largely made by robots—arms with multiple degrees of freedom positioned along conveyor belts that move in a spectacle of precisely synchronized motions. All this ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A collision between a delivery robot and a man using a mobility scooter in West Hollywood received more than 26 ...

Forget robot wolves and missile-deflecting satellites — those things are already becoming old news. Instead, future wars just might revolve around insect-size spy robots. A recent digest of ...

A video showing a robotics engineer violently yanking a humanoid robot around by a chain wrapped around its neck is making its rounds on social media, prompting fears that he may be accelerating the ...

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Robots are just about everywhere these days: circling the grocery store, cleaning the floor at the airport, making deliveries. Not to mention the robots on the assembly lines in factories. But how far ...