Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a “major leap” towards using more robots in operating theatres, this machine trained on the videos of surgeries was able to ...

Picture a robot. What comes to mind? Perhaps a droid from Star Wars or The Jetsons: a machine that can move, speak and perform tasks all by itself. Or maybe your imagination jumps to humanoid robots à ...

Humanoid robots, robotic systems with a human-like body structure, have the potential of tackling various real-world tasks ...

JINAN/HANGZHOU — At a "robot school" in East China's Shandong province, dozens of humanoid robots are mimicking human engineers as they carry trays, fold clothes and fetch bottled water from the ...

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

And, before that, Krieger's Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, STAR, performed the first autonomous robot surgery on a live animal – a laparoscopic surgery on a pig – in 2022. But it was much more heavily ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

Ready for a robot that not only looks human but also acts and reacts like one, expressing emotions like shyness, excitement or friendliness? Disney Research, the innovation powerhouse behind The Walt ...