Despite decades of progress, most robots are still programmed for specific, repetitive tasks. They struggle with the unexpected and can't adapt to new situations without painstaking reprogramming. But ...

Tech companies are collectively spending billions to turn the age old sci-fi trope of humanoid, general-purpose robots into ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a suite of technologies at the company's GPU Technology Conference 2025 designed to help robots learn how to be robots. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video ...

A specialized training facility in China has taken on its first cohort of 'robot students'. Located in Hefei—capital of the eastern province of Anhui—this new 'robot school' is being used to teach ...

What if robots could learn to adapt to their surroundings as effortlessly as humans do? The rise of quadruped robots, like Boston Dynamics’ Spot, is turning this vision into reality. By integrating ...

Sergey Levine is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley whose research is focused on the thing our parents used to make such a fuss over, whenever we made stupid mistakes or should have known to avoid ...

NVIDIA is providing tech stacks, software frameworks and teaching kits for universities and colleges to research innovation in physical AI. Physical artificial intelligence has emerged as the next ...

DIBOLL, Texas (KTRE) - Diboll ISD students had a little fun in the classroom before school kicks off on August 13. “This is Gihan, my robot,” fourth grader Garrett said. It was a week of racing, doing ...

In this blog, Everest Group’s Peter Bendor-Samuel and Richard Sear combine their perspectives from years of advising enterprises and analyzing emerging technologies. Together, they explore how ...

Purdue University has received $1.5 million in funding from the U.S. Army to develop advanced AI-driven robots capable of ...

AlphaBot 2 wants to beat humans at their own game. When the robot is asked if it wants to play dice, it can interpret the question and jump into action – pressing the button on an automatic dice ...

Learn how lessons from medical robot design can be applied to all robotics from cobots to humanoids and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). Enjoying Machine Design’s Motion Systems content? Be sure to ...