Robotics

Since scientists devised the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) more than six decades ago, men have entertained the idea of soon seeing and interacting…

Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci Xi surgical robot with operating team. Source: JPA Health Communications Technological development is leading to an…

The holiday season is a busy time for shoppers and, therefore, for the companies fulfilling their orders. Many businesses hire more workers to help them…

Cognitive flexibility — the brain’s ability to switch between different rules or action plans depending on the context — is key to many of our everyday…

A video exploring how humanoid robots are evolving to look and act even more like humans. But could they ever become our friends?WSJ–Humanoid…

The field of robotics is fast-growing. Robots can now perform complicated movements with elegance — back-flipping, practicing parkour moves, even “carving” …

The date was Sept. 26, 1983, just after midnight in Moscow. In a small back room, alone, sat USSR Lt. Col Stanislav Petrov. His job: Watch all radar and…

To most of us, a 3-D-printed turtle just looks like a turtle; four legs, patterned skin, and a shell. But if you show it to a particular computer in a…

Artificial intelligence and related technologies are increasingly the focus of international competition, but could policies level the playing field between…

Researchers have developed a humanoid robot prototype, HRP-5P, intended to autonomously perform heavy labor or work in hazardous environments.As a…