On Thursday, April 30, 2026, City Councilmember Jennifer Gutiérrez introduced legislation that would bar the New York Police ...

NYPD robots are banned from being armed with weapons, and one New York City Council member wants to make sure it stays that ...

A city councilmember wants to preemptively disarm the NYPD’s robot dogs. Councilmember Jennifer Gutierrez said she planned to introduce a bill on Thursday that would prohibit the NYPD from deploying ...

More than 300 humanoid robots to take part in 21 km event The robots will face more challenging terrain in test of their technical advances Nearly 40% of robots expected to navigate the course ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Silicon Valley’s next great leap may be built on videos of people ...

The machine kicked and flailed about, but it would take a team of humans and a stretcher to get it off the course China Fail Marathon Robot Sometimes, life doesn’t go your way. Sometimes you lose. And ...

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world. Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the ...

A report at MIT Technology Review showcases the kind of work these gig workers are doing, focusing on the work of Zeus, a Nigerian medical student. He makes extra money recording robot training data ...

When researchers asked more than 1,000 Americans to assign colors to robots according to the robot’s job, they found that biases familiar from the human workplace resurfaced—and that the people making ...

Ready for a home robot that wakes you up, makes breakfast and even cleans the house afterward? It may sound far-fetched. However, the Chinese robotics company UniX AI says it is closer than most ...

I’ve never enjoyed cutting the grass. For years, I struggled with an old inherited gas mower that refused to die but often refused to start. Then I had a cheap electric mower with a cord that I had to ...

Engineers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, also known as KAIST, built a humanoid that runs, jumps and even moonwalks with smooth control. In a recent field test, the robot ...