[A version of this piece first appeared in TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here.] Earlier this month, Google’s DeepMind team debuted Open X-Embodiment, a database of robotics ...

There’s a long history of robots taking jobs that are difficult enough for humans to resent, resist, or outright fear. But a new crop of bots is tackling tasks that even machines might calculate to be ...

Yaskawa Electric and Softbank plan to enable human-robot collaboration and more tasks by integrating AI and communications.

What inspired the quadrotor, the Penn-built robot that can fly? Or the X-Rhex, another Penn-built robot that can jump and climb? Find out in “Birth of the Robots,” a film by Kurtis Sensenig that ...

In the 1950s, as Isaac Asimov’s Foundation short stories were fixed up into his Foundation novels, the author was dabbling with a different sci-fi continuity altogether, the future history of robots.