Robots are learning to do the jobs of human factory workers, bus drivers, burger flippers, butlers, and healthcare workers, among many others – and now, they may be coming for scientists as well.

When it comes to navigating their surroundings, machines have a natural disadvantage compared to humans. To help hone the ...

AI is being widely applied to speed up the search for new drugs and new materials that could dramatically improve critical technologies like batteries and solar panels. Most of this work is done in ...

To build the experimental stations of the future, scientists at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE's ...

The University of Liverpool's new lab assistant works 1,000 times faster than any chemist that's come before it—it's also a robot. But this robot doesn't want to replace other humans because its ...