A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and ...

BEIJING — It was not even close as a bright red Chinese humanoid named “Lightning” lived up to its name in a half-marathon ...

A premapped course, a crew of handlers and a world-beating time: here’s what this Beijing half marathon reveals about how far ...

A robot built by Sony AI is rapidly learning how to beat the world's very best table tennis players ...

China’s humanoid robot half marathon showed real gains in speed and autonomy, even if the race still revealed clear technical limits.

Kung–fu, half marathons and now ping pong – is there anything robots can't do? An AI robot called Ace has pulled off wins ...

How does a robot perform as a boss at work? The results of research by Polish scientists published in Cognition, Technology & ...

Iman Soltani is developing active vision technology that would allow robots to change their line of sight and viewpoint to complete tasks instead of relying on multiple cameras. Here, Soltani (left) ...

In the old days, "a robot may not injure a human being" was just a cool line from science fiction. Now it might save your life. Reading time 2 minutes On Thursday, Google announced a new “Robot ...

My colleagues and I have built a robot composed of many building blocks like the cells of a multicellular organism. Without a “brain” or a central controller in the system, our robot, dubbed Loopy, ...

Vivienne Ming argues for a change in how we prepare the young for a near-future dominated and ‘deprofessionalised’ by AI ...