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These robots are more than meets the eye. If you've ever wanted to "roll out" like one of the Autobots from the hit media franchise "Transformers," you might be able to soon! The ride-able ...

[A version of this piece first appeared in TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here.] Earlier this month, Google’s DeepMind team debuted Open X-Embodiment, a database of robotics ...

In the 1950s, as Isaac Asimov’s Foundation short stories were fixed up into his Foundation novels, the author was dabbling with a different sci-fi continuity altogether, the future history of robots.

Amazon now operates over one million robots across its fulfillment network, edging closer to its 1.56 million-strong human ...

Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its ...