"Play is humanity's oldest technology for connection and learning," Roblox's CEO yells at me through my monitor. "Before agriculture, before commerce, before civilization, we played together." Right, ...

Mitsubishi has spent years watching rivals modernize the way they build cars while its own lineup aged in place, and it would rather not repeat the pattern with what comes next. The company has now ...

A former Tesla scientist who helped build the intelligence behind Elon Musk’s Optimus robot wants to do it all again from Paris, only this time for Europe. Rémi Cadene, chief executive and co-founder ...

Before the robots go to work, they have to go to school. Apptronik, a Texas-based humanoid startup that counts Google and Mercedes among its investors, has opened a "Robot Park" in Austin. At the ...

Flexion Robotics, a startup founded by ex-Nvidia engineers, has a clever way of training robots to do useful work. Flexion Robotics, a Swiss startup founded by ex-Nvidia robotics researchers, thinks ...

Case Western Reserve University researcher Zach Patterson constructs robots taking cues from biology—exploring how they function, move and are constructed—in an effort to build safer, smarter, more ...

For a young Tixiao Shan growing up in China, a broken Nintendo 64 controller wasn’t the end of a game—it was the beginning of a journey to understand how electronics work. That drive has since ...

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Senators want the Pentagon to create a new autonomous warfare-focused combatant command led by a four-star general, according to the latest version of the annual defense policy bill. The Senate Armed ...

Building on the country’s electric vehicle industry, Chinese companies are making robot parts at a scale and price point others can’t match. China’s lead in humanoid robots was evident at last month’s ...

Amazon has unveiled its next-generation warehouse robot Proteus, which uses natural language commands and goes a step further in its operations. It now apparently works anywhere items need to be moved ...

Space changes the rules for almost everything, including how a robot should move. On Earth, legs help us stand, balance and walk across a room. In microgravity, those same legs lose much of their ...