Robots displayed at CES 2026 show they're not trying to be sci-fi anymore. They’re practical, folding laundry and offering ...

Scientists achieve major robotics milestone as robot learns 1,000 different physical tasks in single day, potentially ...

Because we've seen so many robots. We've seen Robbie the Robot from the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet, Rosie the housekeeper from The Jetsons, the animated Gigantor, C-3PO and R2-D2 from late 1970s Star ...

AI language skills let you command robots in plain English. The same AI tech lets the robots navigate the chaos of the real world. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

An AI-enabled robot can carry on such processes by autonomously handling delivery, restocking and routing within set ...

For years, progress in robotics has followed a familiar pattern. Researchers train increasingly powerful ...

When it comes to the 'evolution' of mobile robots, it may be a long time before legged robots are able to safely interact in the real world, according to a new study. When it comes to the evolution of ...

A new study in Engineering introduces a novel MRI technique enabling real-time, artifact-free navigation of magnetic robots.

Engineers and robotics fans can nerd out about robots in the lab and the workshop all day long. It’s a very long road from a ridiculously cool, glorified science experiment to robots that can be put ...

Real guppies respond to Robofish—a 3D-printed plastic model with a vaguely realistic paint job—as if it were a real schoolmate. Researchers used different-sized Robofish to show that guppy schools ...

When robotics and cloud-connected digital twins work in sync, they create a living, responsive system that continually ...