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BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

Many manufacturing jobs require a physical presence to operate machinery. But what if such jobs could be done remotely? Researchers have now presented a virtual-reality (VR) system that lets you ...

AI-enabled and virtual training gets robots to work faster—and will empower a more flexible era of automation. In partnership withSiemens Imagine the bustling floors of tomorrow’s manufacturing plant: ...

Chipmaker NVidia became a titan in the computer graphics world, then repurposed the same processors to run the deep-learning neural networks that make today’s artificial intelligence possible. It’s ...

Training humanoid robots to hike could accelerate development of embodied AI for tasks like autonomous search and rescue, ecological monitoring in unexplored places and more, say University of ...

Are there really enough people who want to remote-control a robot and visit places virtually? We're skeptical. But the founder of the startup Propelmee is surprisingly persuasive at the potential uses ...

Teleoperation of robots can be quite challenging, especially for novice users because it forces users to focus on low-level aspects of robot control, rather than higher level goals regarding task ...

There is a lot of buzz these days in the manufacturing sector about robots — and how they can help manufacturers address some of the challenges they face in today’s market, such as increased ...

A cart-like robot scuttles across the field to bring back javelins and discuses. A towering screen-on-wheels is designed for “virtual” attendance. The cute ones are, naturally, the likeness of the ...

A virtual robot arm has learned to solve a wide range of different puzzles—stacking blocks, setting the table, arranging chess pieces—without having to be retrained for each task. It did this by ...