Imagine for a moment that you're in an auto factory. A robot and a human are working next to each other on the production line. The robot is busy rapidly assembling car doors while the human runs ...

That’s according to Elon Musk, at least. In recent months, the tech tycoon has been pushing the idea of “sustainable abundance” — or, the more appealingly named, “amazing abundance.” He claims that ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

Labor is breaking. Robots are scaling. The real bottleneck isn’t hardware, it’s orchestration. Train humans to lead machines ...

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Compared with Industry 4.0, where humans mainly act as supervisors, Industry 5.0 elevates human expertise and contextual understanding. The objective is to allow people to focus on high-value ...

The $700 million humanoid robot order that just landed in China is not a science‑fiction curiosity, it is a signal that industrial AI has crossed from pilot projects into large‑scale deployment.

Amazon’s Pegasus robotic drive system retrieves finished packages from employees and sorts them for delivery. Pegasus is one of three kinds of robots Amazon uses in its warehouses. (Photo courtesy of ...

AI-powered delivery robots from companies like Serve Robotics are replacing human drivers across the nation — but they can't ...

For decades, humanoid robots have lived behind safety cages in factories or deep inside research labs. Fauna Robotics, a New York-based robotics startup, says that era is ending. The company has ...

In many major cities, the delivery robots taking over sidewalks bear facial expressions and names of their own.

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.