Picture a robot. What comes to mind? Perhaps a droid from Star Wars or The Jetsons: a machine that can move, speak and perform tasks all by itself. Or maybe your imagination jumps to humanoid robots à ...

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

"Logistics companies are under continuous pressure to deliver items faster and for lower cost, which puts a lot of strain on operations to maintain reliability while rapidly adapting for the future," ...

In real life, robots are pretty simple. They are just, like, an arm putting cars together or what have you. In movies and TV, though, robots have long been intelligent. They’ve had personalities. They ...

Robots in movies are usually clever, cute, and friendly. But for decades, real-life robots have been basically awkward, clumsy, and really not-so-smart hunks of metal. That’s drastically changed in ...

Robots are famous in pop culture. From Rosie on “The Jetsons” to Wall-E from “Wall-E”, they are a fixture in storying telling that dates back decades. This weekend people can meet Roz in theaters when ...

“It’s pure cinema,” Guillermo del Toro tells me via email, “affecting and gorgeous, and because it’s animation, it is absolutely a creation and not a re-creation.” The revered Mexican director and ...

Will intelligent, unmanned airborne and ground-based robotic vehicles equipped with missiles, bombs and guns pose a real threat to the general population in the future? There is a rising uneasiness ...

A University of Chicago study suggests robots could offer a new kind of support to help kids eliminate anxiety about reading ...