Amazon has developed a new warehouse robot that uses touch to rummage around shelves to find the right product to ship to customers. The robot, called Vulcan, is a meaningful step toward making ...

The footage has fueled fears about the rapid advancement of robotics and AI. A chilling incident in a Chinese factory has sparked debate after a CCTV video showed a humanoid robot lashing out at ...

Meet Sophia, a social robot created by former Disney Imagineer David Hanson. Modeled in part after Audrey Hepburn and Hanson's wife, the robot was built to mimic social behaviors and inspire ...

For a robot vacuum to clean well, it has to be able to navigate a home like a human. That prompted a switch to the Nvidia Jetson Orin chip, which means the vacuum learns how to clean your house on ...

A video circulating online shows a Unitree H1 robot in China malfunctioning, reportedly due to a coding error, and nearly injuring factory workers. This incident follows another recent event where ...

Footage reportedly shot at an undisclosed Chinese factory appears to show a robot violently "lashing out" at workers in a clip that's since gone viral. The security camera video shows a robot ...

A hot potato: Recent efforts by tech companies to develop increasingly human-like autonomous robots have invited endless comparisons to the Terminator films. While the criticisms are usually made ...

If you're releasing a robot into the aquatic environment with no intention of retrieving it, that bot had better be biodegradable. Swiss scientists have gone a step better than that, with li'l ...

July 14, 2020 — Kitchen robots are a popular vision of the future, but if a robot of today tries to grasp a kitchen staple such as a clear measuring cup or a shiny knife, it likely won't be able to.

Amazon has deployed over 750,000 robots to its fulfillment centers over the last decade or so, but now there's a new, shall we say, more sensitive addition. The company has announced Vulcan ...

Amazon says that it has developed a new warehouse robot, Vulcan, that can “feel” some of the items it touches. The two-armed Vulcan, which can maneuver goods inside the storage compartments ...

The robot is believed to be a Unitree H1, a US$90,000 general-purpose humanoid that we've previously seen breaking out dance moves alongside humans, taking the stairs, and pulling off a backflip.