The Sony AI project focuses on table tennis, an activity that has resisted the kind of breakthroughs seen in digital ...

An autonomous robot ping-pong player dubbed Ace has achieved a milestone for AI and robotics in Tokyo by competing against ...

When researchers asked more than 1,000 Americans to assign colors to robots according to the robot’s job, they found that biases familiar from the human workplace resurfaced—and that the people making ...

The robot, a pair of disembodied arms with crablike pincers at the end, wasn’t supposed to pick up the bag. It had been told to do a single tedious job: open plastic bags on a conveyor belt and stuff ...

Amazon is shifting from failed hardware attempts to a software-first, social robot platform (via Fauna) that could plug directly into Alexa and Prime. Tesla is targeting labor and scale with Optimus, ...

Amazon recently announced that it has purchased Fauna -- a maker of humanoid robots. Fauna's Sprout robot won't be taking over duties at Amazon's factories any time soon, but it will serve other ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Amazon.com Inc. acquired New York-based startup Fauna Robotics, becoming the latest technology giant to step into the burgeoning ...

Agile Robots has landed a partnership with Google DeepMind to develop robots with the artificial intelligence research lab, the latest in a string of robotics companies to do so. Munich, Germany-based ...

TSMC Chairman C.C. Wei contrasted viral videos of acrobatic robots from China with the functional requirements of high-performance service robotics, noting that mechanical agility remains "just for ...

Even outdoor robots, which are typically able to navigate uneven terrain, may struggle when they encounter challenges they were not specially programmed to overcome. The same robot that impressively ...

At Nvidia's GTC 2026 conference, major chipmakers — including Texas Instruments (TI), Infineon Technologies AG, NXP Semiconductors, Analog Devices (ADI), and Synopsys — announced new collaborations ...

A woman on an evening walk in Macau was briefly hospitalized after a humanoid robot startled her and left her feeling unwell, police told AFP on Wednesday. Police said they had received a call for ...