General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

See new human-shaped robots, including MIMA’s skill-glove training for dishes and laundry, so you can gauge real home-ready ...

Tiny robots small enough to slip through blood vessels are moving from speculative fiction into the medical lab, promising ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognize objects, navigate ...

The tiny, microscopic robot packs an onboard computer, solar cells, and propulsion system, and is capable of sensing its ...

A new two-layer language-model algorithm is helping robots break down tasks, refine actions on the fly, and execute movements ...

A humanoid robot from a Chinese tech company has set a world record for walking over 100km without assistance.

Step inside the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, and you find yourself in a space that is part children's nursery, part ...

Now that artificial intelligence has mastered almost everything we do online, it needs help learning how we physically move around in the real world. A growing global army of trainers is helping it ...

Xpeng's humanoid robot moves so realistically that crowds believed it was fake, marking a major advancement in robotics ...

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We ...