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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Science laboratories across disciplines--chemistry, biochemistry and materials science--are on the verge of a sweeping transformation as robotic automation and AI lead to faster and more precise ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Facebook is certainly a high-tech company, but it’s not one you would necessarily associate with ...