You can see it in the biggest labor shift in modern history. In the early 1800s, around 70% of Americans worked on farms.

Robots have been used in manufacturing since the 1960s. What is new is the application of AI, which potentially gives robots much more powerful analytical, cognitive, and learning capabilities. AI is ...

Each new robot represents the loss of 1.6 manufacturing jobs on average. Robots are estimated to replace about 20 million manufacturing jobs by 2030, according to a new report. The global stock of ...

Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making bigger promises. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET.

TL;DR: Amazon has now deployed a million robots in its fulfillment centers, as well as introducing DeepFleet, a new generative AI model that optimizes robot navigation to enable faster, more ...

Robots are coming to a town near you—deployed by cities to do work that is labor-intensive, repetitive or dangerous for humans. Cities have long lagged behind the private sector when it comes to ...

Humanoid robots have been a popular talking point in recent months, but most examples so far have involved carefully staged ...

James Pikul receives funding from the Office of Naval Research. He is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Metal Light Inc. Earlier this year, a robot completed a half-marathon in ...

There’s something ominous about robots taking over jobs that humans are suited to do. Maybe you don’t want a job turning a wrench or pushing a broom, but someone does. But then there are the jobs no ...

A robotic arm made of metal and plastic moves a sample in a laboratory setting. Robotic laboratories driven by artificial intelligence algorithms could speed up materials discovery. Researchers have ...