BAR, a mobile robot designed to physically support the elderly and prevent them from falling as they move around their homes. E-BAR acts as a set of robotic handlebars that follows a person from ...

Automakers have been chasing that target since at least the early 1980s when General Motors launched its Saturn brand in hopes of creating fully automated assembly. And more recently, Tesla strugged ...

A robotic hand can pick up 24 different objects with human-like movements that emerge spontaneously, thanks to compliant materials and structures rather than programming.

T he main assumption about humanoid robotics that the industry is maknig right now is that the most realistic near-term ...

What kinds of movement might be possible if, for example, a crutch could extend and retract? That’s not a hypothetical.

The robot is more human-like than an Amazon Alexa, but it only vaguely resembles a person, with a face, eyes, nose, mouth and just an upper body with ... to respond to people’s emotions.

Amazon gave CNBC a first look at its new warehouse robot, Vulcan, that can “feel” objects, enabling it to do a job only ...