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What can a humanoid robot actually do in the real world? If you’ve seen videos online of the Boston Dynamics Atlas robot or Tesla’s Optimus bot, you might have assumed that these machines are just ...

Hospitals trumpet robotic surgery as innovation. Surgeons market it as progress. Manufacturers insist the technology is safe. But when things go wrong, everyone insists it was someone else’s fault.

EPFL researchers have built a modular robot that becomes more reliable as it gains ...

For decades, robotics has focused on mastering the physics of the world. We have poured enormous effort into manipulation, ...

New modular robot design leverages shared electronics and power to maintain function even when modules fail.

Yann LeCun challenges humanoid robots built on precomputed demos, arguing for explicit world models so teams build adaptable ...