Flexion Robotics, a startup founded by ex-Nvidia engineers, has a clever way of training robots to do useful work. Flexion Robotics, a Swiss startup founded by ex-Nvidia robotics researchers, thinks ...

The robot race has a familiar look right now. Two legs. A face-like head. A body that tries very hard to look human. Genesis AI is taking a different route with Eno, its first general-purpose robot.

Building on the country’s electric vehicle industry, Chinese companies are making robot parts at a scale and price point others can’t match. China’s lead in humanoid robots was evident at last month’s ...

It’s a word ripped from Twitch streams, but it functions as a Greek chorus for an online, isolated generation. By Barrett Swanson While serving as an English professor at a small Midwestern university ...

Test time has arrived: the first person has been treated in a highly anticipated gene-therapy trial that aims to coax aged cells to take on a younger identity. The clinical trial is testing an ...

A robot that follows you around the house may sound a little strange at first. Yet Colin Angle, the cofounder of iRobot and one of the people behind Roomba, is betting that the next big home robot may ...

Martinez, California, is about as far as you can get from Silicon Valley and still be in the San Francisco Bay Area. Perched on the northeast edge of the bay, the small city is home to Hello Robot, a ...

A growing workforce of robot controllers is teaching humanoids to move like people so they can work in factories and homes. The humanoid robots are being taught how to do basic tasks: pouring coffee, ...

At robot learning centers in China, people teach machines how to work in a variety of scenarios. Humanoid robots are part of Beijing's bigger industrial strategy to dominate global markets and supply ...

A new “arms race” has broken out with China—this time it’s for robotic soldiers, and experts warn that Beijing may have already taken the lead. So what exactly is an A.I.-powered combat robot and what ...

There’s a new robot pet in town—or, at least, there will be—and it’s made by some of the same people who popularized the robot vacuum back in the early 2000s. Colin Angle, former iRobot CEO (and now ...