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Before anyone could say that a robotaxi crashes less often than you do, somebody had to sit down and read 736 crash reports. Not the tables, the narratives: a few lines of prose describing what hit…
On a private test track, a robotaxi kept stopping at the same spot. A traffic cone stood a few feet away, and the safety driver had the obvious explanation: the car had seen the cone. The car's own…
On Sept. 3, Uber began matching riders in London with self-driving cars built by the British company Wayve, the two firms said in a joint announcement. A trained driver sits behind the wheel of every…
The Food and Drug Administration said Aug. 19 that it has authorized the Aletta, a standalone robot that draws blood from a patient's arm without hands-on intervention by an operator. The device is…
Most humanoid robots are designed in the order you would expect. First, the engineers settle the body: the length of the limbs, where the motors sit, and how much each joint can push. Only then does…
A ball comes in at a humanoid robot standing in a Caltech lab. It has no motion-capture rig watching the room, no external tracker, no operator feeding it coordinates. All it has is a camera on its…
The hardest part was never the motor. It was the listening. When a person's hand still works, the brain sends a clean order down the nerves and the muscles snap to it. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…
Picture a cloud of specks too small to see without a microscope, drifting through a maze of obstacles none of them has ever encountered. No one is at the joystick. The specks fan out, squeeze through…