For decades, the idea of humanoid robots on the battlefield has belonged squarely to science fiction. They stalked through dystopian futures in The Terminator, filled the ranks of armies in Star Wars, ...

Bipedal robots have found navigating uneven terrain a steep challenge but a new hardware upgrade means they can detect their environment and respond quicker than ever before. Researchers in China have ...

What's 3.6 cm tall (1.4 in), and could one day be performing tasks such as walking through disaster site rubble looking for trapped survivors? It's Zippy, which is reportedly the smallest ...

The savvy marketers at Boston Dynamics produced two major robotics news cycles last week. The larger of the two was, naturally, the electric Atlas announcement. As I write this, the sub-40 second ...

Unitree just dropped its latest creation, the R1 humanoid robot, and people are talking. At only $5,900, it's the most affordable bipedal robot we've seen so far. The low price has taken the tech ...

Announced amid a deluge of news at this week’s Delivering the Future event in Seattle was word that Amazon will begin testing Agility’s Digit in a move that could bring the bipedal robot to its ...