The robotics industry has a consensus problem. Nearly every startup and major research lab training robots to handle objects has converged on the same method: ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined ...

Hospitals trumpet robotic surgery as innovation. Surgeons market it as progress. Manufacturers insist the technology is safe. But when things go wrong, everyone insists it was someone else’s fault.

A few short months ago, almost every robot made by the hundreds of companies working on humanoid robots could charitably be described as slow, topping out at around three mph. Walking was on the edge ...