Robotics

Mapping their starting point like bees do helps autonomous drones find their way

A premapped course, a crew of handlers and a world-beating time: here’s what this Beijing half marathon reveals about how far humanoid robots have come—and how far they haven’t

As humanoid robots enter the real world, new studies suggest that people project human racial biases onto them—but the research is divided on whether those biases persist outside the lab and in real-world interactions

Researchers at OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks showed that an AI model working with an autonomous lab can design and iterate real biology experiments at unprecedented speed

Fuzzy, fast-breathing robots can make humans more afraid

Roboticist Benjie Holson created the “Humanoid Olympic Games” thinking home robots were 15 years away. Then they started folding the laundry

A new wearable AI system watches your hands through smart glasses, guiding experiments and stopping mistakes before they happen

Why today’s AI systems struggle with consistency and how emerging world models aim to give machines a steady grasp of space and time

Robots are poised to play a much bigger role in daily life at home, at work and in the world

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition humans learn through experience

A new soft robotic arm and its controller break down naturally

A robotics researcher takes on the Russo brothers’ vision from the new movie The Electric State.