Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

Step inside the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, and you find yourself in a space that is part children’s nursery, part high-tech workshop and part cabinet of curiosities. The lab benches are strewn ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Decades ago, the common hope was that, by the year 2000, we would be living in a full-on science-fiction utopia, with intelligent robots ...

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet. By Meaghan Tobin and Xinyun Wu Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Robots made by Chinese ...

Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making bigger promises. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET.

Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but what we use them for partly depends on answers to very human questions: Do we trust them? Do we like them? According to one prediction, the mass-adoption ...

This robot was designed to do your house chores, but a remote human operator might be helping it finish them. Connor is a technology writer and editor, with a byline on multiple platforms. He has been ...

A world-class field operation advancing robotic systems for air, land, sea, and space. The RSL conducts a world-class field robotics program in which interdisciplinary teams of students develop and ...

Robotics companies have converted the pages of science fiction books into real life, as artificial intelligence-powered humanoid machines are in the early stages of development. The industry is ...