The new design could be adapted to sort warehouse products, unload heavy cargo, or help lift patients out of bed.

The entrepreneur and former MIT professor thinks practical humanoid robots and superintelligence are centuries away.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at MIT created an AI-powered simulator capable of generating limitless, realistic training data for robots. The system ...

MIT engineers have built a fast, lightweight robotic arm that can play table tennis like a pro. Designed for high-speed accuracy, the robot sits at one end of a ping pong table and uses a standard ...

Self-checkouts may take on a new meaning sometime in the future. Instead of having to scan the items yourself, a grocery packing robot may be able to do it for you. It sounds like science fiction, and ...

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (WHDH) - A new robot created by a team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Notre Dame could save lives. The robot operates with a soft, ...

MIT scientists are designing robotic insects that could one day swarm out of mechanical hives and perform pollination at a rapid pace — ensuring fruits and vegetables are grown at an unprecedented ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first self-checkout system was installed in 1986 in a Kroger grocery store just outside of Atlanta. It took several decades, ...

Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have a new experimental robot. This one doesn't self-assemble from smaller robots or see with its feet—it doesn't ...

Forward-looking: Researchers from MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are developing a robotic grocery bagging system that could one day show up in your local ...