But the closest we’ve come to bringing the fantasy to life — in real life — is by building robots. Until recently, this strategy hasn’t produced strongly convincing results.

The group does theoretical and experimental research, all toward expanding a robot's awareness of its environment in ways that approach human perception. And perception, as Carlone often says, is ...

A boy points to an AI robot poster during the 2022 World Robot Conference at Beijing Etrong International Exhibition on Aug. 18, 2022, in Beijing, China.

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But giving robots the ability to read human cues is far from easy. Brooks’ new company, Robust AI, unveiled its mobile robot, Carter, designed to work in warehouse facilities, last week.

The company’s delivery robots have so-called Level 4 autonomy, which means they can drive themselves under certain conditions without needing a human to take over. Serve has been piloting its ...

Japanese tech firm Docomo showed off a small tea-making robot at MWC 2023. The robot relies on motion-sharing technology so that it can mimic a human counterpart. Docomo's overall goal is to ...

Meta unveils three tools and benchmarks to enhance robot touch perception, dexterity, and human-robot collaboration in real-world settings. Skip to main content Events Video Special Issues Jobs ...

A robot-human press conference took place in Geneva, where humanoids took questions from reporters. One bot, Ameca, had a snarky response when asked whether it would rebel against its human creator.

N stands for Newtons, which is the standard unit of force. 10N means the robot's fingers can exert a force of up to 10 Newtons. This is equivalent to about 2.25 pounds-force, indicating the ...

Robot smiles with living skin. That's not creepy at all If humanoid robots make you a bit queasy — would it help if they had fleshy faces that can smile at you?