OpenAI has rapidly scaled its robotics lab over the past year and plans to open up a second lab, insiders say.

The result is something akin to Thing from “The Addams Family” — with all the scamper and skill, but none of the skin or ...

Shellfish and robots might sound like they have nothing in common, but according to Ph.D. candidate Aleix Costa, roboticists can learn a lot from nature. His research aims to bring these two worlds ...

A laboratory in Pittsburgh’s Bakery Square is poised to make the next breakthrough in wheelchairs, a mostly stagnant industry with huge quality of life implications for millions of disabled Americans.

A group of scientists announced today that they identified habitats and microbial life using a rover in Chile’s arid Atacama desert, one of the harshest environments on Earth, and that their findings ...

Icy ocean worlds like Europa or Enceladus are some of the most promising locations for finding extra-terrestrial life in the Solar System because they host liquid water. But to determine if there is ...

Science laboratories across disciplines--chemistry, biochemistry and materials science--are on the verge of a sweeping transformation as robotic automation and AI lead to faster and more precise ...

Scientists show that breathing may be used to control a wearable extra robotic arm in healthy individuals, without hindering control of other parts of the body. Neuroengineer Silvestro Micera develops ...

Unlike traditional robotic grippers fixed to stationary arms, this dual-mode manipulator functions both as a conventional end effector and as an independent mobile tool. Once undocked, ...

The 2004 sci-fi action flick I, Robot (streaming now on Peacock) features Will Smith as Del Spooner, a Chicago detective in the year 2035. It’s a loose adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s robot stories, ...

In a new effort to modernize and improve medical isotope production, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have embarked on a project that harnesses the power ...

It’s the metal, plastic, and wires that give the robot its shape and allow it to move around. Engineers in this field design ...