While the capabilities of robots have improved significantly over the past decades, they are not always able to reliably and ...

A robot has performed realistic surgery on its own with 100% accuracy, researchers have announced. Warning: Graphic images of the surgery below In a "major leap" towards using more robots in operating ...

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

The achievement addresses one of the biggest obstacles in humanoid design: facial motion that looks off. While robotics has ...

Picture a robot. What comes to mind? Perhaps a droid from Star Wars or The Jetsons: a machine that can move, speak and perform tasks all by itself. Or maybe your imagination jumps to humanoid robots à ...

Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed ...

Freaked-out viewers are hoping the engineers quit while they’re a head. Robots are looking far less robotic as time goes on. Now, a Chinese robotics company is alarming viewers after unveiling the ...

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For a generation of scientists raised watching Star Wars, there’s a disappointing lack of C-3PO-like droids wandering around our cities and homes. Where are the humanoid robots fuelled with common ...