AI’s concealed labor has repeatedly led us to overestimate the technology. Humanoid robots are entering a similar phase.

When AI-powered prosthetic arms that move autonomously become widespread, understanding how people feel about them and accept ...

[Leo Goldstien]’s entry into the world of robotics has been full of stops and starts. Like many beginners, he found traditional robotics instructions overwhelming and hard to follow, bogged down with ...

Integrated motion control allows all kinds of robots to tackle a range of tasks with precision, in contrast with conventional ...

While the Roborock Saros Z70 didn’t exactly live up to the hype, there’s no denying its robotic arm is still a cool piece of technology. Capable of picking up small objects in its path, moving them to ...

Robots have long excelled at repetitive factory work welding, picking, placing, and packaging yet they’ve struggled with the messy, flexible, unpredictable tasks that dominate daily life. Folding a ...

Jannik Grothusen and Kaspar Janssen trained a pair of $120 robot arms to clean a spill. Using GPT-4o, the robots were programmed in four days, designing a visual language model for ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm that receives signals from his brain via a computer. He was able to grasp, move and drop objects just by ...

New AI training allows assistive robots to move both arms naturally, helping them perform household tasks more safely and efficiently.