How does the Automated Ball-Strike System work? Stadiums are outfitted with cameras that track each pitch and judge whether it crossed home plate within the strike zone. In early testing, umpires wore ...

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UChicago scientists team up with Chicago Public Schools to test if robots need fictional personalities to teach effectively ...

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Boston Dynamics has been on the cutting edge of robotics since 1992, and it has unveiled its most ambitious plan yet to monetize those decades of research. On stage Monday at the Consumer Electronics ...

No matter how sophisticated they are, robots can often be indecisive and struggle with multi-step chores in the real world. For example, if you tell a robot to tidy a messy room, it might understand ...

SALEM, Ore. — In an office park opposite an Amazon warehouse, the robots are at work. A trio of six-foot-tall machines with ostrichlike legs and two jointed arms work in shifts, walking off a charging ...