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A new kind of factory worker is joining Toyota's production lines — handling repetitive tasks and hinting at a very different ...

If someone asked you to move like a robot and you responded with the fluid art of ballet, your audience would be baffled, yet ...

The phrase 'the future is now' often gets tossed around willy-nilly but in this situation, it seems quite apt. A Chinese ...

[Aditya Sripada] and [Abhishek Warrier]’s TARS3D robot came from asking what it would take to make a robot with the capabilities of TARS, the robotic character from Interstellar. We couldn’t find a ...

New research helps robots combine language and gestures to find objects in cluttered spaces, improving how they understand ...

Although they're constantly improving, robots aren't necessarily known for their gentle touch. A new robotic system from MIT and Stanford takes a unique stab at changing that, with a robot that uses ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. For decades, ...

Automation has made its way into restaurant kitchens. Planet Money looks at what the effects of automation have been historically — and watches a robot wok in action to see how it may change things.