At ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab, engineers have created ANYmal-D, a four-legged robot that can play badminton with people. This project brings together robotics, artificial intelligence and sports ...

AlphaBot 2 wants to beat humans at their own game. When the robot is asked if it wants to play dice, it can interpret the question and jump into action – pressing the button on an automatic dice ...

A pair of computer science and neuroscience students at Northeastern University gave the phrase “playing like a robot” new meaning. Second-year students Nikhil Mukraj and Jacob Shechter recently ...

A lower latency visual system might be needed to make the robot more competitive. If the creators only have ANYmal tracking the shuttlecock, they've already put it at a disadvantage. In racket and ...

Smarter data processing could make machines more helpful and energy-efficient in the real world. A good way to test this principle is robot soccer. Robots perceive the world around them very ...

Tom Yeung here with today’s Smart Money. In the 1962 pilot episode of The Jetsons, Jane Jetson, a space-age housewife, wants a robot maid. The family can’t afford one, and so they end up at a U-Rent A ...