If you’ve attended any manufacturing industry trade show over the past several years, there’s one thing you’re certain to have seen plenty of — Universal Robots’ (UR) collaborative robots (cobots). A ...

For the engineers designing, programming, and commissioning today’s automotive manufacturing systems, workforce challenges are no longer an abstract human resources concern. Across the automotive ...

Robotics company Boston Dynamics has struck a partnership with Google’s AI research lab to speed up the development of its next-generation humanoid robot Atlas — and make it act more human around ...

Google DeepMind is teaming up with Boston Dynamics to give its humanoid robots the intelligence required to navigate unfamiliar environments and identify and manipulate objects—precisely the kinds of ...

In 2021, 60 Minutes visited the offices of robotics company Boston Dynamics and met an early model of its humanoid robot, Atlas. It could run, jump and maintain its balance when pushed. But it was ...

CES 2026, the annual consumer tech conference held in Las Vegas, is here. And lucky for you, we have TechCrunch editors and reporters on the ground to cover the news, scout out the interesting, weird, ...

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As the war grinds on, sophisticated Russian defenses have pushed Ukraine to develop a frightening new weapon: semiautonomous killing machines. By C.J. Chivers This story was reported over the course ...

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There are all sorts of running goals—conquer a marathon, get out three times a week—but one of the most significant performance-based goals is to Get Faster! Let’s face it: Most of us, unless we’re ...

The nervous system does an astonishing job of tracking sensory information, and does so using signals that would drive many computer scientists insane: a noisy stream of activity spikes that may be ...

China is about to send humanoid robots to work at a busy border with Vietnam. UBTECH Robotics has won a $37 million contract, to deploy its Walker S2 machines there starting this month. The assignment ...