A new fast-food establishment, BurgerBot, is making waves in the restaurant industry by employing robots instead of humans to prepare meals. The automated restaurant features robots that handle ...

Human-robot interaction suggests there’ll likely be many contexts where robots don’t displace workers but rather make the ...

Robots-for-rent is one way some small U.S. factories gain access to automation, reducing turnover and ensuring workers aren’t ...

Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson introduces us to the human-like robot that is doing the work of people in a Spanx warehouse in Georgia.

Humanoid robots move by walking on two legs and using robotic arms to manipulate objects. Their motion relies on balance, ...

Working in cooperation with the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), Boston Dynamics has developed a Large Behavior Model (LBM) ...

When robots work safely with humans, they can provide clear benefits. Industries facing labor shortages, such as elder care, could see relief. Physically demanding jobs might also become safer for ...

During more than 25 years as a factory worker, David Young has seen a parade of robots take over tasks he and his colleagues used to do by hand. So Young, a machine operator, isn’t fazed by t… ...

The new algorithm could help robots make safer, smarter decisions around humans, even amidst the greatest uncertainties.

Each human-robot team then carried out a simulated task in a virtual environment, with half of the teams using the conventional interactive reward approach, and half using the cross-training ...

Scientists at the Computer Science and AI Laboratories at MIT used machine learning approaches to train a robot arm to take action based on question-and-response dialogues with a human teammate ...

If your robotic co-worker knocked over the water cooler, would you blame it? Researchers sought to answer that question by surveying human employees in three different fields and discovered that ...