Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIT and NVIDIA Research researchers have developed a powerful new algorithm that drastically accelerates how robots plan their ...

The demographic landscape in the U.S. is shifting rapidly, with the median age now at 38.9, almost a decade older than it was in 1980. By 2050, the population of adults over 65 is projected to surge ...

Tutor Intelligence in Watertown is a kind of kindergarten for robots.

Two MIT alumni have launched the largest robot training facility in the U.S., where AI-powered machines learn basic human tasks like folding laundry and packing boxes. The Watertown, ...

Why would you want a robot to see inside a sealed box? Digging deeper beyond the initial creepy thought, a new breakthrough from MIT could soon let warehouse robots do something pretty remarkable.

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world.

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (WHDH) - A new robot created by a team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Notre Dame could save lives. The robot operates with a soft, ...

Daniela Rus has spent her career breaking barriers—scientific, social, and material—in her quest to build machines that amplify rather than replace human capability. She made robotics her life’s work, ...

Researchers have created a minuscule origami robot that unfolds itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, moves across the stomach wall to remove swallowed objects or ...