A soft armband that lets you steer a robot while you sprint on a treadmill or bob on rough seas sounds like science fiction.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. In an Indian town, workers fold towels while wearing cameras, providing data to teach AI robots how to move and ...

Right now, humanoid robots are where smartphones were in 2007. The question is how fast they will transform our lives.

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

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"Logistics companies are under continuous pressure to deliver items faster and for lower cost, which puts a lot of strain on operations to maintain reliability while rapidly adapting for the future," ...

According to the company, the robot has 82 degrees of freedom, which enable smooth, flexible movements, and is powered by ...

We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving ...

Now that artificial intelligence has mastered almost everything we do online, it needs help learning how we physically move around in the real world. A growing global army of trainers is helping it ...