Tesla workers are performing repetitive tasks like lifting cups and wiping tables to train the Optimus robot, with their movements captured by helmet cameras. This physically demanding process aims to ...

Have you ever wanted to wipe down a table hundreds of times while Elon Musk watches? Training Tesla's humanoid robot might be ...

University of Chicago computer scientist Sarah Sebo is programming robots to give empathetic responses and perform nonverbal ...

Abstract: In early May, media inquiries started arriving at my office at the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (www.crasar.org). Because I'm CRASAR's director, I thought the press was ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lay off about 550 workers, the California research lab said, in a restructuring move that its director told employees was not related to the ongoing government ...

With Figure 03, we see images of a humanoid robot doing the dishes, serving drinks, or working at a hotel reception desk and our minds tend to fill in the gaps and assume the robot is acting like a ...

Naked mole rats live for up to 37 years – far longer than other rodents their size. What is the secret of their longevity? Among other factors, it could be down to a variant of an immune protein that ...

For decades, New York sidewalks were awash in piled-up black plastic rubbish bags, some of which doubled as housing projects for the city’s other inhabitants. “I’ve kicked bags of garbage in New York ...

Selina Xu leads China and AI research in the office of former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt. Helen Zhang is deputy chief of staff and director of research and projects there. Schmidt invests in ...

ZURICH/TOKYO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - SoftBank Group (9984.T), opens new tab has agreed to buy the robotics business of Swiss engineering group ABB (ABBN.S), opens new tab in a $5.4 billion deal, as the ...