POMDP, an AI framework inspired by dogs that allows robots to use human gestures and language to find objects with 89% accuracy.

Whether in the kitchen or on a workshop floor, robot assistants that can fetch items for people could be extremely useful.

In his genre-defining 1950 collection of science fiction short stories “I, Robot,” author Isaac Asimov laid out the Three Laws of Robotics: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction ...

Coordinating groups of underwater robots is difficult because communication below the surface is slow and unreliable. GPS ...

Researchers in China have developed a wearable robot that adds two mechanical legs behind ...

The last decade has seen vast improvements in humanoid robots, but graduating to widespread use might require going back to the fundamentals. “Not reliably,” Hurst said. “I don’t think it’s totally ...