Earlier this year, when a 22-year-old factory worker at a Volkswagen plant in Germany died after being crushed against a metal plate by an assembly machine that mistook him for a car part, most news ...

It’s a cute little robot learning how to say “green” and “blue.” And as part of a major project undertaken by robotics researchers at the University of Hertfordshire, it’s also promising to transform ...

Updated September 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM EDT Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, ...

Co-founder & CEO at InOrbit, a leading data management platform for autonomous robots, and co-founder of Robot Operations Group. Modern robots are awesome, but they’re also infamous for getting into ...

Kids have taken up an anti-robot and anti-AI slang term. But some are treading carefully around the use of a slur — even against technology. (Photo illustration: Gabriella Turrisi/Yahoo News; photos: ...

Researchers at MIT have created a robot capable of constructing furniture and other large objects from reusable building blocks based solely on spoken commands. This innovative technology has the ...