Humanoid robots are getting a new gig as baggage handlers and cargo loaders at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport—part of a Japan Airlines experiment to address a human labor shortage as airport visitor numbers have surged in recent years.

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

Scientists built small ant inspired robots that work together using light signals. These robots can build or dig by following simple rules.

Veterans of the autonomous vehicle industry who founded their own robotics outfit told BI that AV experience has a lot of transferable skills.

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, responded to and learned from voice commands from the team ...

Professor David Feil-Seifer and students discuss Nevada Engineering’s new robotics master’s program, who it fits best, and the faculty research shaping it.