Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots’ potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. Researchers analyzed for the first time the economic impact of ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a ...

There is a place on FIU's smoke-free campus where cigarette smoking is allowed. But not just any cigarette. And only if you’re a robot. Professor Hoshang Unwalla, a researcher at the FIU Herbert ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new comprehensive report from The Insight Partners, the global robot end-effector market is observing significant growth owing to the scaling of ...

Economist John Maynard Keynes conjectured in 1930 that all human workers would be replaced by machines, leading to “technological unemployment.” This and similar prophesies have inspired a cottage ...

Scientists at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), have investigated the impact of the shadow produced by moving cleaning robots on ...

A remote-controlled robot the size of a grain of sand can swim through blood vessels to deliver drugs before dissolving into ...

Microrobots navigating bloodstream to reach and treat clots show 95 % success in lab tests, potentially transforming stroke ...

This director deserves far more appreciation than he gets today for blazing a trail in giant robot cinema. Director Stuart ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Researchers at the University of Miami are using a smoking robot to see what impact e-cigarette aerosol may have on the lung's airways. E-cigarettes were designed overseas as a ...