Most people think of Toyota and picture a Camry, a Tacoma, maybe a Prius. A 7-foot-2 robot shooting free throws at halftime of a professional basketball game? That's a harder image to conjure. But ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A few days ago came the astonishing news that the world record in the half-marathon was obliterated by a 5-foot-5 ...

Earlier this week, I visited a lunch spot in London where several 20-somethings were busy toiling behind a counter. To their left sat a less ordinary sight: a food assembly robot that might one day ...

Meta has acquired humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) for an undisclosed sum, the social media giant said. “We acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a company at the frontier of ...

Looking ahead: Sony's latest robotics project tackles a core challenge in AI: operating reliably in fast-moving physical settings. Ace, an autonomous table tennis system, shows how close that goal is ...

Ace is the first robot that can match serves with some of the best pro players in the world, a new study shows. Reading time 3 minutes Watch out Marty Supreme, there’s a new contender for the throne ...

Artificial intelligence works when computers learn from data that is readily available. But there is no data to teach robots to do simple human tasks. It needs to be created. That's what MIT graduates ...

A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and sometimes defeating them, according to a new study that shows how advances in ...

At this point, most home robots are either glorified vacuums or far-off concepts that may never become commercially available. However, we just got a look at a new home companion robot potentially ...

Humanoid robots, or bipedal machines powered by software, are emerging as one of the more tangible outputs of the artificial intelligence revolution. The growing obsession with them is easy to explain ...

Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones and recently began ‌discussing plans to use them to attack the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, U.S. military vessels ⁠and possibly Key West, Florida, 90 ...

There’s a new robot pet in town—or, at least, there will be—and it’s made by some of the same people who popularized the robot vacuum back in the early 2000s. Colin Angle, former iRobot CEO (and now ...