Robots are learning to do the jobs of human factory workers, bus drivers, burger flippers, butlers, and healthcare workers, among many others – and now, they may be coming for scientists as well.

Touching a Mechanical Body: Tactile Contact With Intimate Parts of a Human-Shaped Robot is Physiologically Arousing." The experiment consisted of instructions spoken by the robot followed by 26 trials ...

With improved model capabilities, Anthropic Opus 4.6 is an example, the same wave is now hitting science itself. If code is no longer the bottleneck—if generating, testing, and iterating on ...

The University of Liverpool's new lab assistant works 1,000 times faster than any chemist that's come before it—it's also a robot. But this robot doesn't want to replace other humans because its ...

Expedition 74 astronauts conducted science experiments, spacesuit maintenance, and spacecraft operations while the International Space Station received cargo deliveries and performed a reboost.

Can artificial intelligence offer meaningful relationship advice, or do human therapists still provide something machines ...

Science is exciting in theory, but it can also be dreadfully dull. Some experiments require hundreds or thousands of repetitions or trials — an excellent opportunity to automate. That’s just what MIT ...