Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Robotics Initiative program, the team’s goal is to develop what they call “cobots,” or robots that can work collaboratively and ...

Dressed in sensible Nordic knitwear, Bernt Bornich’s robotic manservant is more stylish than practical. Ask it to fetch a can of Coca-Cola from another room, and more often than not, something will ...

Swiss scientists create grain-sized robot that surgeons control with magnets to deliver medicine precisely through blood ...

Marta Bernardino and Sebastião Mendonça invented Trovador, a six-legged, A.I.-powered robot that can plant trees in ...

What if your childhood Tamagotchi could step off the screen and into the real world? Imagine a tiny robot, complete with blinking eyes and lifelike movements, responding to your voice and following ...

Better, faster artificial intelligence is fueling a rise in human-like robots for customer service at places like hotels and airports, especially in areas outside the U.S. But many robots still fail ...

Happy, sad, surprised, angry, neutral: These are the five emotions conveyed by Bartholomew, the tiny robot designed by researchers in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Just taller than a ...

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands — On an indoor soccer field here, a championship-winning team is running its drills. Each player stakes out a position, makes precise adjustments and fires the orange ball at ...

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we introduce you to DoorDash’s new delivery robot and discuss what the growing robot population means for humans. Earlier this week, DoorDash unveiled its own new ...

Memo may not be the world’s fastest barista, but it is impressive—for a robot. I recently watched as Memo, a new home robot from a company called Sunday Robotics, made coffee in an open-plan kitchen ...