Years of science fiction movies about futuristic military warfare tend to have a bit of an impact on how we picture robots in the military. It usually involves robot skeletons shooting lasers, giant ...

Amazon has used drones to deliver packages, but according to an internal report cited by The Information, the retailer is planning to test out more human-like autonomous delivery methods. Namely, ...

The machines can load and unload trucks, move goods and do other repetitive tasks but are stymied by some, like picking items from a pile. Robots at a DHL facility in Columbus, Ohio.Credit ...

Can research psychologists use traditional measurement techniques to measure personality, group behavior, and other typical “psych things” on robots? Yes. And it turns out that many of the perceptions ...

BMW is exploring ways to use Figure’s 5’6, 130-pound humanoid robot in its South Carolina manufacturing facility. The Figure robot is a 5’6, 130-pound bipedal hunk of metal capable of lifting around ...

Are robots that are modeled after the human form the best choice for warehouse operations? To many of us, the word “robot” conjures up an image of a machine that’s designed to look like a human — with ...