In China, robots are being used to minimize the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, by taking on cleaning and food preparation jobs that are considered dangerous for humans.

As the coronavirus outbreak continues around the world, robots are being used to disinfect, take temperatures, and even prepare food. Softbank's Pepper robot has been repurposed in some places to ...

VIRUS-FIGHTING ROBOT -- A robot dispenses hand sanitizer to a SK Telecom employee at the company’s headquarters on Tuesday. SKT said it has collaborated with Omron Korea to develop the robot as ...

Robots are helping health care workers and public safety officials more safely and quickly treat coronavirus patients and contain the pandemic. They have something in common: They're tried and tested.

It’s counterintuitive, in a way. If robots look too similar to humans, we feel uneasy. This is due to a phenomenon called the “Uncanny Valley,” first coined by roboticist Masahiro Mori in ...

In order to prevent the robots themselves from spreading the virus, ... This picture taken on January 22, 2014 shows a traffic robot cop on Triomphal boulevard of Kinshasa at the crossing of ...

MIT has designed a robot that is capable of disinfecting the floor of a 4,000-square foot warehouse in only half an hour, and it could one day be used to clean your local grocery store or school.

The Neo is a four-foot-tall, 1,000-pound robot floor scrubber. The high-tech machine can cruise large commercial buildings on its own, with no human supervision required.

During a "projectile episode," as researchers daintily call it, the virus can spread up to 10 feet (3 meters) when an infected person throws up, according to Bill Marler, an attorney and an ...