The coming decade will not be defined by robots replacing humans, but by humans and robots collaborating side by side. From ...

A research team has developed a new "Physical AI" technology that improves the efficiency of multi-robot autonomous ...

Across a Swiss meadow and into its forested edges, the drone dragged a jumbo-size cotton swab from a 13-foot tether. Along its path, the moistened swab collected scraps of life: some combination of ...

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

The speed at which industrial robots are being deployed isn't slowing down. In 2024, 542,000 were deployed globally – the second-highest annual total on record - ...

Chrysalis, a 36-mile rotating space habitat, plans to take 2,400 people to Alpha Centauri in approximately 400 years.

Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying ...

The Three Laws of Robotics, as established by science fiction author Isaac Asimov, are as follows: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A ...

Baseball’s robot umpires may look like a narrow sports experiment. In fact, they are a parable for the economy at large: Technology pares back one craft, redistributes value, and leaves the real ...

Major League Baseball announced on Sept. 23 that the ABS challenge system was approved for MLB play by a vote of the joint competition committee.

With RoboBallet, the complexity of computation also grew with the complexity of the system, but at a far slower rate. (The ...

MLB announced this week that the Automated Ball/Strike System would be coming to the majors next season. Not everyone is ...