Figure announced a $1 billion series C round of funding from investors including Nvidia, Salesforce, Qualcomm Ventures, and more.

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

Elon Musk says the surgical scalpel is about to lose its top billing to algorithms and actuators, predicting "robots will surpass good human surgeons within a few years and the best human surgeons ...

Welcome to this week’s episode of “man-made horrors beyond human comprehension.” A humanoid robot named DeREK had what you might call a “moment” on the floor of a San Francisco robotics lab this week, ...

A new algorithm has been designed to enable robots to make safer decisions around humans. In a factory setting, robots and ...

CU Boulder aerospace engineer Morteza Lahijanian is creating new algorithms that help robots complete tasks while keeping the humans in their midst safer.

Though many humanoid robots finished a 13-mile race through the Chinese capital, others were beset by technical difficulties—or failed at the starting line. Human runners competed against 21 humanoid ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions in real time based on a human speaker's intent—a ...