Aging populations, supply-chain woes and the electric-vehicle revolution could boost demand for robots manufactured by companies such as Japan’s Fanuc.

The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior. His strategy: Give them a goal of making us more powerful.

For robots to be predictable and adaptive, they need a priority-based architecture and a new legal model, argues a researcher ...

Why not the real world? The main obstacle to scaling this model up, and why we’re not putting this on any real robot yet, is that it’s hard to compute the channel capacity of an agent and a human far ...

FieldAI builds foundational AI models that help all kinds of robots learn and adapt to new environments using physics.

Winfield describes his robots as having a little bit of “common sense.” For the moment, robots can only use simulation theory of mind in relatively simple situations.

Instead of replacing people, however, as some earlier industrial robots have, Sawyer is built to work alongside them. For Sawyer is a collaborative robot, also known as a “cobot”.

“We need to flip the script and use technology as part of the solution and the new system for how we build skills.” Beane has spent more than a decade examining work involving intelligent machines, ...

Working alongside Cyrus Mostajeran of the UK’s University of Cambridge, they believe that their work will make it possible to design microscale swimming robots from materials such as liquid crystal ...