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Aryan Gupta’s sanitation rover replaces unsafe manual drain cleaning with a remotely operated, low-cost robot that protects workers and exemplifies ethical, human-centered engineering in urban India.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. In an Indian town, workers fold towels while wearing cameras, providing data to teach AI robots how to move and ...

The curious minds at ColdFusion explore whether robots are developing a human-like mind. This raises questions about AI, consciousness, and the future relationship between humans and machines.

The curious minds at ColdFusion reveal a robot hand that learned human behavior on its own. This matters because it demonstrates the potential for machines to adapt, interact, and learn like humans.

It’s hard to think of any other company that has shaped the labor market as much as Amazon has over the past two decades. Now, internal documents and interviews obtained by the New York Times point to ...

Facepalm: Amazon has responded to reports that the company aims to replace 600,000 US warehouse workers with robots by 2033. Predictably, it's trying to put a positive spin on the news, claiming that ...

Primary school students interact with a humanoid robot named Xiao An after a science lesson in Hefei, China. (Han Suyuan / China News Service / Getty Images) Now that artificial intelligence has ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few ...

The Litter-Robot 5 Pro can handle up to five cats and comes with cameras equipped with facial recognition to know everybody’s business. The Litter-Robot 5 Pro can handle up to five cats and comes with ...

Amazon has spent years automating its warehouses with robots. Its mechanical workforce is more than one million strong, rivaling the size of its human workforce of some 1.56 million people. Robots, in ...