UChicago scientists team up with Chicago Public Schools to test if robots need fictional personalities to teach effectively ...

Otto Group uses Nvidia Omniverse and AI to coordinate warehouse robots, boosting efficiency and redefining logistics with ...

It’s the main hub that ties everything together—sort of like the conductor for the orchestra that is a robot. It takes in ...

Robots have long excelled at repetitive factory tasks, but they have struggled with the messy ambiguity of everyday human instructions. Microsoft’s new Rho-alpha model is an attempt to close that gap, ...

The race to build the world’s first functional humanoid robots is no longer just a contest of hardware. It’s a high-stakes battle over two radically different philosophies of development, the crux of ...

AI’s concealed labor has repeatedly led us to overestimate the technology. Humanoid robots are entering a similar phase. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI.

Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making bigger promises. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET.