Robots are good at a few simple things. They can lift and carry huge objects, fly around like dragonflies, and murder our families while we watch, their cold circuits flitting with nascent feelings of ...

Japan has the oldest population in the world, and that’s causing an acute labor shortage. With almost a third of the population aged 65 and above, finding workers can be a challenge. Increasingly, ...

IN a vast warehouse, three of Amazon’s newest recruits are resting with their arms behind their heads, legs splayed out. With the flick of a button that marks the end of break time, they roll up to a ...

Hapless Boston Dynamics robot in shelf-stacking fail – video This outtake was part of a TED talk demonstrating the advances made by formerly Google-owned Boston Dynamics. Though robots have come a ...

If stacking the dishwasher is a chore you dread, help may soon be at hand. British scientists have developed a robot which they are training to complete that very task. The robot - which they have ...

A new experiment shows snail-inspired swarm robots stacking and adapting to move objects across gaps without fixed structures.