If you've ever wished you could outsource tasks like laundry, dishes, or assembling an IKEA bookshelf — well, Elon Musk ...

Chinese Shenzhen-based humanoid robot maker UBTech announced on Wednesday (January 15) a new partnership with Apple's Chinese manufacturing partner, Foxconn, to use its robots to help make iPhones.

UBTech Robotics says it plans to expand its assembly of humanoid robots 10-fold next year to as many as 5,000 units and ...

Assembling furniture can be a grueling task. Often we’re left surrounded by screws, parts that appear to belong nowhere, and a set of directions we’re not thrilled about deciphering. Wouldn’t it be ...

Putting together Ikea furniture is a cruel test of mettle that most of us must brave sooner or later, but science has (finally) done something worthwhile by creating an Ikea-furniture-assembling robot ...

In the 1980s when micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) were first created, computer engineers were excited by the idea ...

When we watched the first Transformers movie, most of us wanted our toasters and washing machines to turn into cool robots. Now, MIT has developed a set of self-assembling robot blocks that can ...

A headless humanoid robot clambers noisily through an obstacle course with the grim, unfeeling purpose of a terminator. Luckily, it's just the latest video celebrating the official start of a U.S.

Harvard and MIT engineers, showing a reckless disregard for the robocalypse, have created origami robots that can self-assemble themselves -- from a flat piece of paper and polystyrene -- and walk ...

Robots and humans assembled their brains and artificial intelligence (AI) for Moon exploration at the ESA-ESRIC Space Resources Challenge. A team proved that when it comes to surveying uncharted ...