University of Chicago computer scientist Sarah Sebo is programming robots to give empathetic responses and perform nonverbal ...

Wrap is proactively developing human centered non-lethal response and policy frameworks with the aim to protect the public as ...

Standing amid hundreds of people in the rotunda of Chicago's iconic Museum of Science and Industry, Ritika Ghosh (MSR '23) felt her confidence building. Ghosh was teaching people of all ages about a ...

Zhengyang (Kris) Weng (MSR '25) brought a passion for the piano to MSR, where his independent project replicating a human hand could ultimately impact robots in hospital operating rooms. The gentle ...

Switzerland-based Mimic Robotics AG said Monday it has raised $16 million in seed funding from Elaia and Speedinvest to ...

Richtech Robotics Inc. has officially launched the Richtech Accelerator Program, aimed at advancing AI and robotics research in U.S. universities by integrating localized AI models with robotics ...

In one campus laboratory, electrical engineering doctoral student Karthik Subramanian adds facial recognition and heart rate bio-signals into the mind of a 9-foot-tall robot. In another workshop, ...

Moxi 2.0, powered by NVIDIA AI and accelerated computing, combines redesigned hardware and a new AI foundation model built on three years of real-world deployment data to expand autonomy and scale.

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train ...

On Wednesday, Clone Robotics released video footage of its Protoclone humanoid robot, a full-body machine that uses synthetic muscles to create unsettlingly human-like movements. In the video, the ...