In the Duke Engineering Physical AI series, Boyuan Chen considers how robots that learn from experience could adapt to ...

Advances in AI offer tantalizing glimpses of a future in which robots navigate the world the way humans do. The question is ...

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Artificial intelligence, or at least the modern concept of it, has been with us for several decades, but only in the recent past has AI captured the collective psyche of everyday business and society.

Humanoid robots -- the fusion of AI and other technologies with a deliberately human-like form -- are poised to increase in popularity through 2026 and beyond. Agentic AI can perceive, reason, plan ...

Last week, I ventured a whopping 15 minutes from my house to see robots do some mind-boggling, jaw-dropping stuff. The arms mastered a range of tasks after ingesting a short, instructional video and, ...

Earlier this year in Beijing, a humanoid robot crossed a half-marathon finish line in a blistering 50 minutes, 26 seconds. The feat immediately lit up global headlines for shattering the human world ...