The state teachers union says that the robot, created by a company with ties to a maker of sex robots, has "no business" in classrooms.

UC San Diego researchers used teleoperated humanoid robots to complete two gallbladder-removal surgeries in pigs, including one procedure involving a human assistant and another briefly using two ...

Salamanca City Central School District is spending nearly $58,000 on a lifelike robot and AI tutor. Whether it improves ...

For some cruise vacationers, the thought of robots on cruise ships leads to concerns about how increased automation on board ships could replace the human connections and personalized service that ...

Evolution has already found solutions to lots of problems, so engineers more often borrow ideas from nature instead of ...

The human touch is hard to replace, but there are tasks that are better suited to mechanical engineering. These hotels are making the best use of robots to give their staff more time to serve guests.

SceneSmith uses AI agents powered by GPT-5.2 to build detailed 3D environments where robots practice tasks and expose faulty plans before real homes.

A technology has been developed that uses robots rather than humans to evaluate the performance of newly developed catalysts. By operating 45 times faster than manual work while also improving ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. This Phantom humanoid robot by Foundation is working in a factory. Some of them, however, ...

It primarily uses tracks to navigate various types of terrain. However, unlike conventional tracked robots, which have a relatively rigid footprint, Athena’s tracks are attached to four independently ...

At Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the nurse assistant stopped by a patient's room to pick up some lab samples while dropping off toiletries. Then, as the helper's pixilated blue eyes ...

A hot new job has emerged in Los Angeles: robot wrangler to help delivery bots navigate the real world. The robots get stuck in potholes, can’t reach doorbells and are sometimes abused by humans. As ...