Beginning as a DVD-by-mail rental service (how quaint) in the late 1990s, in 2007 Netflix delivered its billionth disc in the ...

By Will Dunham April 22 (Reuters) - An autonomous robot ping-pong player dubbed Ace has achieved a milestone for AI and ...

The robot, a pair of disembodied arms with crablike pincers at the end, wasn’t supposed to pick up the bag. It had been told to do a single tedious job: open plastic bags on a conveyor belt and stuff ...

The Sony AI project focuses on table tennis, an activity that has resisted the kind of breakthroughs seen in digital ...

The race for AI and robotics talent is getting expensive. Chinese humanoid-robot startup UBTech is hiring a chief AI scientist with a maximum salary of $18 million. This comes as China seeks to build ...

Amazon is shifting from failed hardware attempts to a software-first, social robot platform (via Fauna) that could plug directly into Alexa and Prime. Tesla is targeting labor and scale with Optimus, ...

When researchers asked more than 1,000 Americans to assign colors to robots according to the robot’s job, they found that biases familiar from the human workplace resurfaced—and that the people making ...

The Robotics and AI Institute (RAI) has just released a video of its Roadrunner robot. Although it lacks a torso, the bipedal bot more than makes up for it by rolling, stomping, stair-climbing, and ...

Physical AI is emerging as one of the next major industrial battlegrounds, with Japan’s push driven more by necessity than anything else. With workforces shrinking and pressure mounting to sustain ...

Navy veteran and MIT entrepreneur launches defense robotics company to tackle the man-overboard crisis and combat its 72% fatality rate at sea Every seafarer knows the fear of a man-overboard call. I ...