A video purportedly showing an amazingly human-like robot walking down a driveway began to go viral (along with expressions of robophobia and cyber-dystopianism) in mid-August 2018: Although many ...

Researchers from Cornell University have released a framework called BeyondMimic that allows humanoid robots to perform ...

Many lonely people would rather deal with a robot than interact with an actual human, according to research co-led by ...

But that all might change now, the Post says, since researchers have successfully trained state of the art of robot surgeons with next-generation technology, using videos of procedures, so that ...

Credit: John Hopkins University/Cover Images A surgical robot trained using videos of real procedures has successfully completed a key phase of a gallbladder removal on a lifelike model—without any ...

A May 8 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) features a video appearing to show security footage of a robot working on an assembly line. "Robot attacks factory worker!" reads the text in the ...

Establishing human-robot harmony in the workplace isn't always easy. Beyond the common fear of automation taking human jobs, robots sometimes simply mess up. When this happens, reestablishing trust ...

The dial-in database should help droids get on the right bus to find the store. Humans, meanwhile, might get a whole lot lazier. One of the big problems in setting a robot like PR2 loose on a mission ...

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, ...