Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Benjamin Wolff covers leadership insights from the world of the arts. Are robots coming for us and our work? The dystopian answer ...

By reusing knowledge from previous tasks and applying it to new ones, the robot can generalize far more efficiently, which is ...

Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but human psychology and the uncanny valley may stand between them and world ...

Soft robots that run on air instead of electricity are starting to behave less like simple inflatable toys and more like ...

But that all might change now, the Post says, since researchers have successfully trained state of the art of robot surgeons with next-generation technology, using videos of procedures, so that ...

NVIDIA says its latest general-purpose robot update can teach a humanoid machine using software entirely, bypassing the months of motion capture sessions most rivals still depend on. The chipmaker ...

Why it matters: Ever since Boston Dynamics first showcased its famous legged robots in 2013, numerous organizations have introduced machines that autonomously perform various professional and ...

Researchers at DARPA are seeking to create smoother relations between robotic systems and humans, and because nothing enhances communication like good manners, they’re developing a kind of “finishing ...

Iman Soltani is developing active vision technology that would allow robots to change their line of sight and viewpoint to complete tasks instead of relying on multiple cameras. Here, Soltani (left) ...

Once upon a time, machine learning was an arcane field, the preserve of a precious few researchers holed up in grand academic institutions. Progress was slow, and hard won. Today, however, just about ...

We’re fascinated with robots doing human things, from Elektro chain-smoking its way through the 1939 World’s Fair to the Turk automaton that was beating people at chess during the 18th and 19th ...

“First, they learned to learn,” may sound like the clichéd opening line of a movie on some fictional robot uprising, but in an inevitable twist of fate, researchers from Washington State University’s ...