Robots are improving fast, but most jobs are still safe. Here’s what robots can and can’t do in today’s workplace.

Imagine a robot that could do your laundry, make your bed, cook your dinner, or stock the dairy section at your local grocery store. Humans have long been able to teach robots how to do individual ...

Across the top floors of an Amazon warehouse in Garner, North Carolina, about 10 miles south of Raleigh, the robots are already crowding out human workers. A sprawling robotic system in the middle of ...

Japan’s government is actively pushing robots into jobs that workers increasingly refuse to do, from lifting elderly patients in nursing homes to running repetitive tasks at rural factories. The ...

In this episode of Lexicon, we sit down with Aya Durbin, Director of Product for Atlas at Boston Dynamics, to explore why that question is finally being answered seriously—and why the last few years ...

How to solve the problems of economic migrants and farming automation, asks a UK robotics company. Cue a controversial – and unexpectedly revealing – idea. Farms worldwide face severe challenges: ...

Scientists have used machine learning to help robots learn how to do new tasks even in changing conditions. (Malte Mueller | Getty Images) Imagine a robot that could do your laundry, make your bed, ...

Scientists say they've made a key breakthrough that would allow robots to figure out complex tasks on their own, but experts say it raises... 'Self-aware' robots can learn complex tasks by watching ...