Robots often fail outside factories when things move or change. Technology helps them see, feel, and learn, so they can work ...

In the latest episode of What the Future, we run down the best highlights and fails from the first World Humanoid Robot Games held last week in China. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video ...

Robots have never looked more impressive, yet in the real world they still fail at the basic promise of doing useful work ...

It appears that robot boxing is not yet ready for prime time, unless it is intended to be a comedy show. Honestly, when one robot is a preening pacifist, and the other an idiot, the boxing is more fun ...

Hospitals trumpet robotic surgery as innovation. Surgeons market it as progress. Manufacturers insist the technology is safe. But when things go wrong, everyone insists it was someone else’s fault.