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Robots are often imagined as hard, shiny things, gleaming futuristic machines. They often are hard, shiny things. But sometimes they’re softer than a baby butt and more flexible than an Illinois ...

Introduction Have you ever wanted a robot assistant that could do all your household chores? Science fiction has been showing us such robots for decades, but they're still not available! What's taking ...

Imagine standing in an elevator as the doors begin to close and suddenly seeing a couple at the end of the corridor running toward you. Even before they call out, you know from their pace and body ...

University of Otago provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. University of Otago provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. Self-driving cars, personal assistants, cleaning ...

Engineers have come up with a new way to teach robots to know when they don't know. The technique involves quantifying the fuzziness of human language and using that measurement to tell robots when to ...

White-collar workers and blue-collar workers may have vastly different incomes, but many from each group around the world currently share the same anxiety: how will the spread of powerful artificial ...

Infinite Craft follows the simple formula of combining two words to make a third and takes it to the extreme. Any two words can be combined; the result is one word that’s the conceptual amalgamation ...

Here’s one way to tackle the dreaded task of assembling your Ikea furniture: Get a robot to do it for you. With some off-the-shelf robotics hardware and a substantial amount of programming, ...

What if I told you that a robot can make you a cup of coffee just by watching a video of a human doing it? It's almost hard to believe, but it actually happened. Thanks to a breakthrough in artificial ...

Horror stories from robot vacuum owners mostly stem from two fixable mishaps: They accidentally bought a dinky robot vacuum or merely haven't set their very capable robot vacuum up for success in the ...

If you thought the cronut was an inventive bit of baking, prepare to be wowed. Robotics experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have mastered a technique which could usher in a world ...