Outside of tightly controlled environments, most robotic systems still struggle with reliability, generalization and cost. The gap between what we can demonstrate and what we can operate at scale ...

Robots have never looked more impressive, yet in the real world they still fail at the basic promise of doing useful work without constant human babysitting. Slick demo clips and viral humanoid stunts ...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA is helping to improve absolute accuracy for robots.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beyond performing preprogrammed martial arts and dance moves, we can't shake the feeling that robots as they exist today just kind ...

Plenty of Apple households consider robot vacuums essential smart home devices, but they’ve always had one major limitation: stairs. If you live in a multi-story home, you’ve either had to carry your ...

With millions of tons of plastic covering the seafloor, and more added every year, plastic pollution in the oceans is a major problem. With this amount of waste, we are ruining Earth's oceans and ...