Robots have never looked more impressive, yet in the real world they still fail at the basic promise of doing useful work ...

Robots often fail outside factories when things move or change. Technology helps them see, feel, and learn, so they can work ...

It strode out on stage to the Rocky soundtrack, but Russia’s first humanoid robot did not impress once it got on the stage. After taking only a few shaky steps and then trying to wave, it faceplants ...

In the latest episode of What the Future, we run down the best highlights and fails from the first World Humanoid Robot Games held last week in China. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video ...

First, though, the machines will have to learn how to pour water or carry soup, as a Chinese restaurant that replaced its wait staff with robots quickly learned. If we trusted this drone to get little ...

Hospitals trumpet robotic surgery as innovation. Surgeons market it as progress. Manufacturers insist the technology is safe. But when things go wrong, everyone insists it was someone else’s fault.