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Many experts believe more general forms of artificial intelligence will be impossible without giving AI a body in the real world. A new approach that allows robots to learn how their body is ...

Roboticists from the nation’s top universities recently created a self-aware mechanical arm that taught itself how to move. Hop Lipson shows an audience the Self-Aware robotic arm he's been involved ...

A few short months ago, almost every robot made by the hundreds of companies working on humanoid robots could charitably be described as slow, topping out at around three mph. Walking was on the edge ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a senior tech contributor who writes about science and technology MIT CSAIL researchers have developed a new system that ...

Thanks to the many ongoing projects in this field, we're used by now to seeing humanoid robots performing all sorts of impressive, almost human-like tasks and movements. But it's not until you see one ...

A small robot that can shape-shift and produce heat could incinerate cancer cells or stop bleeding from inside the body. It could also be used to ferry drugs directly to tumours or hard-to-reach ...

Helix, the AI brain powering Figure’s humanoid robots, has been upgraded to its most advanced full-body control system to date. Unlike earlier models limited to upper-body tasks, Helix 02 uses a ...