A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...

When robots work safely with humans, they can provide clear benefits. Industries facing labor shortages, such as elder care, could see relief. Physically demanding jobs might also become safer for ...

Robots-for-rent is one way some small U.S. factories gain access to automation, reducing turnover and ensuring workers aren’t ...

Across industries, companies are feeling the squeeze from labor shortages, rising costs and nonstop pressure to boost efficiency. Robots are quickly becoming real-life solutions, and their promise has ...

Humanoid robots promise to take on dull and dangerous jobs. But is that really true? what about the future of human work?

Elon’s Tesla Optimus 🤖🔥 is here! Dawn of the physical Agentforce revolution, tackling human work for $200K–$500K.

The company behind ChatGPT is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears to be ...

As China's robot-to-worker density rises, automation encroaches on worker territory. What does this mean for employees?

Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson sees opportunity in an American labor shortage. The company's humanoid robots have already ...

In an office park opposite an Amazon warehouse, the robots are at work. A trio of six-foot-tall machines with ostrichlike legs and two jointed arms work in shifts, walking off a charging rack to move ...

A new study from University of California, Merced, and Pennsylvania State University, reported by news site The Debrief, boils down into a single word: trust. We just trust human-shaped robots much ...

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, ...