BEIJING — It was not even close as a bright red Chinese humanoid named “Lightning” lived up to its name in a half-marathon pitting humans against robots, smoking its competition on Sunday

China’s humanoid robot half marathon showed real gains in speed and autonomy, even if the race still revealed clear technical limits.

How does a robot perform as a boss at work? The results of research by Polish scientists published in Cognition, Technology & Work suggest that while robots can command obedience, they are not as proficient at it as humans. The level of obedience towards ...

Ian says there's a missing link that will take AI into the physical world. Google DeepMind just showed us what it might look like.

In the old days, "a robot may not injure a human being" was just a cool line from science fiction. Now it might save your life. Reading time 2 minutes On Thursday, Google announced a new “Robot Constitution” that will govern the AI that runs its ...

Vivienne Ming argues for a change in how we prepare the young for a near-future dominated and ‘deprofessionalised’ by AI

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) and Andrew Lee, a second-year Ph.D. student in computer ...

Ukraine’s military is increasingly using robots to replace human soldiers, even in combat assault missions, helping to counter Russia’s manpower advantage.