I spent my childhood longing for him to bring me fun drinks on his little tray while I reclined on the sofa, glued to back-to ...

"A lot of money will have disappeared, spent on trying to squeeze performance, any performance, from today’s humanoid robots.

BMW just finished a pilot program in Spartanburg, S.C., where robot tasks included loading sheet metal parts into a welder. Even small firms are getting in on the action. Greg LeFevre is CEO of ...

Learn how humanoid robots use adaptive control and error recovery, helping teams handle tough tasks with fewer stoppages.

While investors are busy pouring billions of dollars into humanoid robots, an MIT roboticist who has been making robots for three decades claims they are wasting their money. Rodney Brooks, the ...

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Count iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) co-founder Rodney Brooks as one of the skeptics that humanoid robots will be able to deliver on all the promises being made across the industry. Brooks also is the ...

Tech investors are pouring billions into the effort, but Rodney Brooks argues that general-purpose humanoid robots will not ...

MIT researchers have demonstrated aerial microrobots that can fly with speed and agility that is comparable to their ...

We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving ...