Robotics

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.

An AI analysis and a chemical sensor determine drinks’ dilution, freshness and type

New rolling, hopping robots navigate via fungus

As drones get less expensive and computer vision systems improve, rescuers are getting help from artificial eyes in the sky

Students should learn about both the natural world and human-made—or engineered—one we live in

Is baby Skynet already here? We need robust laws now to withstand eliminating humans from nuclear decision-making