California startups are building robots to help with fold laundry and other tedious tasks as the race to dominate artificial ...

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The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet.

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A Parisian restaurant once promised a pizza experience unlike any other. Order your pizza and, within five minutes, a robot would craft your pie from scratch, no human hands required. This was the ...

But to make these robots more usable in clinical settings, we’ll need to equip the machines with the tools to see, hear, and maneuver more like a human. Robots can use computer vision to interpret ...

What makes a robot truly intelligent? Is it the ability to solve complex equations in milliseconds or something more human-like—such as recognizing a misplaced object in a cluttered room or adapting ...

About 12,000 human athletes ran in a half-marathon race in Beijing on Saturday, but most of the attention was on a group of other, more unconventional participants: 21 humanoid robots. The event’s ...