BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

Wonder Workshop, the education technology company that introduced Dash and Dot to classrooms, has developed a virtual world with a virtual robot for student access in remote classes. The digital ...

Seven teams of software gurus whose code deftly controlled a virtual, human-like robot through a virtual obstacle course were awarded a real humanoid to program for a real-world competition to develop ...

A virtual robot arm has learned to solve a wide range of different puzzles—stacking blocks, setting the table, arranging chess pieces—without having to be retrained for each task. It did this by ...

There’s a zero percent chance you instead thought of the thing in the video above, a Frankenstein’s monster of what appear to be cobbled-together Tetris pieces. That’s because a computer “evolved” ...

Are there really enough people who want to remote-control a robot and visit places virtually? We're skeptical. But the founder of the startup Propelmee is surprisingly persuasive at the potential uses ...

An army of more than 4,000 marching doglike robots is a vaguely menacing sight, even in a simulation. But it may point the way for machines to learn new tricks. In the simulation, the machines—called ...

MIT and Toyota researchers developed an AI tool that builds realistic 3D worlds, helping robots train faster and smarter.

Carnegie Mellon announces a robot that helps take gargantuan panoramic photos and a Web site where people can explore the results. The aim? Cross-cultural understanding. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

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Even before anyone had heard of the new coronavirus, restaurants were adopting new technologies to meet shifting consumer tastes, cut costs and deal with labor issues amid a highly competitive ...