While not 100% hands-free, it's miles ahead of where robot vacuums were only a few years ago.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is seemingly everywhere these days, including children’s toys. Earlier this year, for example, toymaker Mattel announced a partnership with OpenAI, the company behind ...

The researchers demonstrated that the vine robot can safely and stably lift a variety of heavy and fragile objects, like a watermelon. Credit: Kentaro Barhydt and Harry Asada. Some vines in nature are ...

Getting hurt during the holidays can ruin any celebration so clinical specialist in orthopedic physical therapy Karena Wu joins TODAY to share tips on how to prevent common aches and pains. Wu shares ...

Dyson has officially launched the Spot+Scrub AI robot vacuum in China, positioning it as a high-end home cleaning device powered by on-device artificial intelligence. The product is priced at 5,499 ...

BEIJING, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Chinese humanoid robot companies should prevent the risk of highly repetitive products entering the market and squeezing the space for research and development, the country ...

A team of researchers from the Korean Institute of Science and Technology has created a soft octopus-inspired robot. According to its developers, the aptly named OCTOID is a soft robot that leverages ...

Observe your own hand. As you read this, it’s holding your phone or clicking your mouse with seemingly effortless grace. With over 20 degrees of freedom, human hands possess extraordinary dexterity, ...

Abstract: We provide a method for detecting and localizing objects near a robot arm using arm-mounted miniature time-of-flight sensors. A key challenge when using arm-mounted sensors is ...

A soft robotic system uses liquid crystal elastomers to merge shape shifting, gripping, and color change, demonstrating fully integrated motion and optical feedback within a single flexible material. ...

Amazon is reportedly moving towards an era of unprecedented automation that would put half a million jobs in the US at risk. According to a series of interviews and internal documents referenced in an ...