Rodney Brooks, the cofounder of Roomba vacuum creator iRobot, said the idea of humanoid robots as catchall assistants, the ...

"A lot of money will have disappeared, spent on trying to squeeze performance, any performance, from today’s humanoid robots.

Humanoid robots, once confined to science fiction, are transitioning into viable commercial entities due to advances in ...

Despite billions of dollars in investment, startups say their androids can only perform simple tasks.

BMW just finished a pilot program in Spartanburg, S.C., where robot tasks included loading sheet metal parts into a welder.

Count iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) co-founder Rodney Brooks as one of the skeptics that humanoid robots will be able to deliver on all the promises being made across the industry. Brooks also is the ...

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A team of MIT researchers created a speech-to-reality system that enables a robot to build furniture with just a simple ...

MIT and Google DeepMind researchers have created an AI-driven robot that can turn ideas into physical objects with only ...

Although they're constantly improving, robots aren't necessarily known for their gentle touch. A new robotic system from MIT ...

While investors are busy pouring billions of dollars into humanoid robots, an MIT roboticist who has been making robots for three decades claims they are wasting their money. Rodney Brooks, the ...