With clever design and innovative engineering, scientists can make incredible things, like robotic lenses with clarity that ...

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Serve Robotics is showing progress in deploying its fleet of artificial-intelligence-trained food delivery robots. The stock, however, dipped Friday on the company’s sales guidance. For the second ...

Teleoperated robots offer the illusion of autonomy while requiring human controllers. Actual progress demands local ...

In two new papers, UC Berkeley roboticist Ken Goldberg explains why robots are not gaining real-world skills as quickly as AI chatbots are gaining language fluency. UC Berkeley News spoke with ...

Neurotic robots are a staple of science fiction. You've got C-3PO from "Star Wars." (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "STAR WARS: EPISODE IV - A NEW HOPE") ANTHONY DANIELS: (As C-3PO) What are we going to do? We'll ...

There’s something ominous about robots taking over jobs that humans are suited to do. Maybe you don’t want a job turning a wrench or pushing a broom, but someone does. But then there are the jobs no ...

We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving ...