"Robots are developing fast, and the case for sending humans is getting weaker all the time," says Lord Martin Rees, the UK's Astronomer Royal. "I don't think any taxpayer's money should be used ...

You may also note the presence of five distinct individuals in the image—Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm, Ben Grimm, and a little robot guy—which sort of throws the whole "Four" thing ...

The population of industrial robots worldwide reached 3.9 million in 2022, according to data from the International Federation of Robotics. The automation leader is the Republic of Korea with 1,012 ...

The new year will see the rise of killer robots, as computers take over more functions from human pilots, including flying to the battlefield and striking selected targets.

The rise of humanoid robots, equipped with advanced AI systems ... to undertake a variety of assistive tasks – like IT help desk, employee onboarding, coordinating sales and service, and ...

What just happened? In a significant leap forward in medical technology, researchers have developed autonomous surgical robots. However, there are many issues that need to be addressed before ...

He’d yell instructions at his players if he could — but his team consists of five thigh-high robots on wheels, with names like Zessi and Robodinho. They move on their own; during each 30 ...

One of the original stereotypes about robots is that their movements are stiff and abrupt, something that endures in the “robot dance” that first became popular in the 1980s. Robots have since ...

Desi, as she likes to be called, and her older sister Sophia took the music world by storm, not because of their vocal stylings but because they are both life-sized humanoid robots. The robot wasn’t ...

They don’t get fruitcakes or Christmas cards from grateful patients, but for decades robots have been helping doctors perform gallbladder removals, hysterectomies, hernia repairs, prostate ...

Now, new research demonstrates how AI training techniques similar to those used for ChatGPT could be used to train surgical robots to operate on their own. Researchers from John Hopkins University ...

A staff member conducts tests on a Walker X humanoid robot at a sci-tech company in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, June 26, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua] The explosive growth of humanoid ...