Robots aren't always the most delicate of machines when handling fragile objects. They don't have the lightness of touch of ...

In October, a student presented a robotic hand made entirely from LEGOs at the 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Hangzhou, China. But Jared Lepora isn’t in ...

A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager. In a decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote that ...

Aryan Gupta’s sanitation rover replaces unsafe manual drain cleaning with a remotely operated, low-cost robot that protects workers and exemplifies ethical, human-centered engineering in urban India.

Armies of humanoid robots are poised to march into the world’s factories. But before they’re ready to turn a wrench, they must solve what Elon Musk calls “the hands problem.” Creating the mechanical ...

The curious minds at ColdFusion reveal a robot hand that learned human behavior on its own. This matters because it demonstrates the potential for machines to adapt, interact, and learn like humans.

Musk also took to X, sounding the alarm on governance. About half of all publicly-traded Tesla shares are controlled by passive index funds that outsource their voting to ISS and Glass Lewis, he notes ...

Elon Musk needs Tesla investors to vote for his $1 trillion payday so that he can control a robot army. Yes, really, that’s what he said. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is no stranger to unrealistic ...

In a Tesla earnings call Wednesday, the world’s richest man pondered the future of his company’s Optimus robots—and his control over them. Musk has also made it clear that he wants to get paid, a lot.

Andrew Cuomo, whose stewardship of the M.T.A. as governor was contentious, suggested that the authority hand over responsibility for capital construction and maintenance to the city. By Michael Gold ...

What if the future of robotics and prosthetics could fit in the palm of your hand? Enter the Wuji Hand, a new innovation that redefines what’s possible in human-like motion and precision. With its 20 ...

Musk shared a new video of the Tesla robot performing Kung Fu drills with its trainer, writing on X, "Tesla Optimus learning Kung Fu." The footage shows Optimus greeting its human instructor before ...