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Meta on Friday announced PARTNR, a new program designed to study human-robot interaction (HRI). The research is specifically focused on how humans and robots might collaborate in the home environment.

Autonomous robots could save human lives more easily if they could “see” and react better in adverse environmental conditions. By pursuing the possibilities of using millimeter wave radar for robotic ...

Imagine for a moment that you’re in an auto factory. A robot and a human are working next to each other on the production line. The robot is busy rapidly assembling car doors while the human runs ...

In a groundbreaking advancement in artificial intelligence, AI robots have reached a level of sophistication that has made them indistinguishable from humans, after successfully passing the Turing ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are undoubtedly accelerating research, but are these tools helping scientists to advance new frontiers or are they simply optimizing solutions to existing ...

A research team from the Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit and the Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory, Department of ...

When disaster strikes, every second counts and there is new technology from Carnegie Mellon University that can help save lives. Researchers at CMU are developing a new robotic technology specifically ...

Robots-for-rent is one way some small U.S. factories gain access to automation, reducing turnover and ensuring workers aren’t injured. Automating the most arduous and repetitive jobs, like lifting and ...

STORY: Humanoid robots raced against humans for the first time in a half-marathon in China’s Beijing on Saturday. The robots were accompanied by human trainers, who sometimes had to physically support ...