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.

Over the past few decades, robotics researchers have developed a wide range of increasingly advanced robots that can ...

Machine-learning models can speed up the discovery of new materials by making predictions and suggesting experiments. But most models today only consider a few specific types of data or variables.

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 ...

Uncrewed cargo shipments to the International Space Station usually include critical supplies, science experiments and goodies such as hazelnut spread and ice cream for the astronauts aboard. But a ...