Robot makers of any era would have loved to plug a canny, practical brain into robot bodies. For decades, though, no such thing existed. Computers were as clueless as their robot cousins.

In a significant step forward for sustainable robotics, a fully 3D-printed autonomous logistics robot has been unveiled by a ...

“In order to do that, we want a robot to understand their body.” Chen and his colleagues published their work in the journal Science Robotics on July 13. Their robot is relatively ...

Scientific American’s David Berreby wrote this week of tech industry efforts to put AI brains in robot bodies (a concept called embodied AI). Collective philosophical head-scratching around the ...

The Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) has reached a milestone in humanoid robotics by demonstrating the first flight of ...

E-BAR, MIT's mobile robot, provides physical support for seniors with handlebars that follow from behind, helping prevent ...

The radical solution: fully autonomous robots that would help us with an ever-growing list of tasks in our everyday lives. We were, in other words, going to give AI a body in the physical world ...

Many experts believe more general forms of artificial intelligence will be impossible without giving AI a body in the real world. A new approach that allows robots to learn how their body is ...

Scientists at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) have achieved something remarkable — they’ve successfully flown a ...

Rodney Brooks knows a fair bit about robots. Besides being a pioneer of academic robotics research, he has founded companies that have given the world the robot vacuum cleaner, the bomb disposal ...

including potentially their own robot bodies, move in a physical environment. Teaching robots to understand the way humans naturally move also makes them more predictable. If they understand normal ...