The robot can pick and pack merchandise, fold, and label items among other tasks. A Canadian startup has begun piloting its “human-like intelligence robots ” that can complete retail worker tasks, ...

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, ...

As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans ... and therefore there's nothing you can do about it," he said. There have been recent attempts to set the robot free from its ...

Robot-staffed, so-called dark factories – who needs light when you have no human workers – may not be that far off now. Automakers have long dreamed of factories capable of operating without human ...

From left, engineering professor Morteza Lahijanian and graduate student Karan Muvvala watch as a robotic arm completes a task using wooden blocks. Imagine for a moment that you’re in an auto factory.

Tech giants like Sony and LG Display are making inroads into the auto sector -- it could change the way we think about cars ...

If you work in retail, food service, warehouses, or health care, your newest co-workers may be robots, not human. Automation is replacing many of the roles done by people. Robots don’t need breaks, ...

Across industries, companies are feeling the squeeze from labor shortages, rising costs and nonstop pressure to boost efficiency. Robots are quickly becoming real-life solutions, and their promise has ...

When it comes to robots displacing humans from the job market, government bureaucrats are generally not what springs to mind. The recent McKinsey report on the future of jobs estimates the automation ...

AI and robots seem to be everywhere, handling more and more work, freeing humans up — to do what? In this 3-part serie, contributor Jill Eisen explores the digital revolution happening in our working ...

Horror stories from robot vacuum owners mostly stem from two fixable mishaps: They accidentally bought a dinky robot vacuum or merely haven't set their very capable robot vacuum up for success in the ...