San Diego State Senator Steve Padilla has proposed a four-year moratorium on the sale and manufacturing of AI chatbots for ...

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, Mr. Brooks’s co-founder and C.E.O. at Robust.AI, which is building automated ...

Tech investors are pouring billions into the effort, but Rodney Brooks argues that general-purpose humanoid robots will not be coming home soon, and that they are not safe enough to be around humans.

The Avant chalets on the Lausanne campus. 2025 EPFL/Adrien Buttier- CC-BY-SA 4.0 What made EPFL shine over the past year? Its ...

You can celebrate New Year's Eve without having to stay awake until midnight in Old Sacramento. The "Countdown on the ...

Some of the world's most advanced robots showed off their skills at tech shows and sporting events, doing everything from ...

Robot vacuums have steadily improved their cleaning performance and object avoidance over the years, but during our testing at CNET Labs, we discovered an odd trade-off.

Boston Dynamics product lead Aya Durbin discusses Atlas, industrial humanoid robots, and what it takes to make humanoids ...

Medra, an artificial intelligence startup focused on drug discovery, has raised $52 million in early-stage funding to try to integrate powerful large language models with physical systems that can ...

Bacteria-scale robots that can run for months without human control are no longer a lab fantasy. Researchers have now built ...

Google DeepMind will open its first research lab for discovering new materials, like those used in batteries or semiconductors, as part of its push to apply artificial intelligence to more scientific ...