I’m standing in a kitchenette at a Google office in Mountain View, California, observing a robot at work. It’s staring at items on a counter: bubbly water, a bag of whole-grain chips, an energy drink, ...

On Thursday, Google announced a new “Robot Constitution” that will govern the AI that runs its upcoming army of intelligent machines. Based on Isaac Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics,” these safety ...

Google is increasing the intelligence of robots with AI called Robotics Transformer 2. The new AI-powered robots could help take out the trash. AI may one day help robots better respond to verbal ...

Google found a new way to demonstrate what its Gemini AI model can do, with help from a robot. This was a robot from Google’s Everybody Robots Division, which was shut down last year. But apparently ...

Across all Gemini’s incarnations, Google stresses its conversational abilities. Whereas Assistant was hard-pressed to keep ...

Drivers navigating traffic on their morning commutes will be able to do much more than just find directions and the nearest ...

Google’s DeepMind has shown off an AI-powered robot that can beat the average player at a game of table tennis. According to an announcement by the company on X-formerly-Twitter, “it’s the first agent ...

Innovation rarely matches up to science fiction. The Jetsons premiered in 1962 and is set in 2062, so we’re closer to the future than we are the past. While it doesn’t feel like we’re living in The ...

Google DeepMind has trained a robot to play intermediate-level table tennis. Lintao Zhang/Getty Images Researchers from Google DeepMind have unveiled an A.I. powered robot that is not only able to ...

Google has unveiled a new approach to using large language models (LLMs) that shows how robots can write their own code on the basis of instructions from humans. The latest work builds on Google's ...

Late last week, Google research scientist Fei Xia sat in the center of a bright, open-plan kitchen and typed a command into a laptop connected to a one-armed, wheeled robot resembling a large floor ...

Robots work tirelessly in factories, often around the clock, to churn out cars, computers and pack bags of cookies into boxes. They never complain, ask for breaks or demand bigger paychecks. In fact, ...