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

We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving ...

Researchers at Penn and the University of Michigan have developed the world’s smallest, fully autonomous robots. The health applications are nearly endless.

What started out as the robot’s routine dance and greeting a few weeks ago ran amok when someone — ahem, a human — accidentally ordered up a high-energy act, according to an employee at the Main ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, automation reshaped American industry with little drama. Robotic machines took over dangerous and repetitive tasks in ...