A robotics company, co-founded by Tipperary man Jamie Palmer, which is building a robotic labour force for space, has announced the completion of a $6.1m funding round.

More than 500 human-like robots gathered in China in August to compete in the first-ever World Games. Sporting legs, arms and fingers, they ran, kicked soccer balls, boxed, and completed everyday ...

Figure announced a $1 billion series C round of funding from investors including Nvidia, Salesforce, Qualcomm Ventures, and more.

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Walking, talking humanoid robots that were once firmly the domain of science fiction are on their way. In fact, a Morgan Stanley report recently predicted that 13 million human robots will be among us ...

At ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab, engineers have created ANYmal-D, a four-legged robot that can play badminton with people. This project brings together robotics, artificial intelligence and sports ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Engineers at Caltech have developed a robot that can seamlessly move between walking and flying. Video shared by the elite Pasadena private research university showed the ...

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...

The more we interact with robots, the more human we perceive them to become – according to new research from the University of East Anglia. It may sound like a scene from Blade Runner, but ...