Boston Dynamics reveals how Atlas learned heavy lifting using reinforcement learning and millions of simulations.

So I would like to welcome you to Boston circa 1859. This Back Bay home looks like its neighbors out front, but inside *** hidden history perfectly preserving Boston's Victorian era. At the end of the ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify that the contract with the Museum of Fine Arts was not renewed, and to add comment from the MFA and the union representing impacted employees.

Let’s face it: It’s been an abysmal year for climate action. But Boston’s business leaders and politicians are serving notice — not only is the city still all in on climate action, but it’s also ...

Employees at the Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston are gearing up for contract negotiations with the Seaport museum after quietly opting to unionize last month. Just over 90 employees, in roles ...

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Boston Dynamics published two videos and a technical blog on May 18 showing exactly how its Atlas humanoid robot learned to ...

Thanks to new technologies like artificial intelligence, scientists are increasingly freed from the constraints of the laboratory. It raises questions about how much humans should outsource to robots.

A trip to the second round of the 2026 NBA playoffs will be on the line when the seventh-seeded Philadelphia 76ers battle the second-seeded Boston Celtics in Game 7 of their Eastern Conference matchup ...

Scientists in Germany have pulled off a staggering computing feat by fully simulating a 50-qubit quantum computer for the first time ever using Europe’s new exascale supercomputer, JUPITER. The ...

When I turned 80, my daughter Julie organized a trip for the two of us back to the place where I grew up… back to Philadelphia. Throw in my cancer, and maybe she was a little worried that I was on ...

Census data continues to show that Charlotte and the region are among the top growth areas in the U.S. In fact, no other U.S. city added more people in the past year than Charlotte. From July 2024 to ...