In labs, living rooms, hospitals, and classrooms, robots are no longer just tools—they’re becoming social actors. People ...
Many robots are equipped with cameras to allow them to see the world. These digital eyes record sequences of still images which must somehow be interpreted as motion. A popular approach is optical ...
Making robots more human may turn out to be a costly mistake, not because the technology fails, but because it ignores the ...
Counting warehouse stock used to be a massive time sink. Now a single robot scans it fast, and the company says workers were reassigned, not laid off.
A child with a new cochlear implant works on auditory rehabilitation exercises at home in Toulouse, France, aided by Pepper, a human-looking robot. In Canada, another child interacts with Pepper, who ...
Companies across sectors are increasingly embracing robotics for efficiency gains, labor optimization and cost savings. But introducing robots into human-centered environments isn’t just a technical ...
Fauna Robotics is launching Sprout as a developer platform for humanoid robots. The robot features 29 degrees of freedom and ...
Skeptics say Fort Lauderdale restaurants handing meals to food delivery robots is risky. Others ask why Brightline trains are hitting them. Will they ruin human jobs? Here are the answers.
The breakthrough builds on neuromorphic engineering, a field that designs hardware modeled after the human brain. Unlike traditional processors, which separate memory and computation, neuromorphic ...
The winning robot finished the race in two hours and 40 minutes Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025. He has previously been published by Just Jared, PopCrush, Idolator ...
China-based robotics firm LimX Dynamics has carried out a large-scale demonstration of autonomous humanoid robots operating ...