Humanoid robots have been promised for decades, but most still look and move like machines. Ameca changes that, with a face ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognize objects, navigate ...

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Tiny robots small enough to slip through blood vessels are moving from speculative fiction into the medical lab, promising ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions in real time based on a human speaker's intent—a ...

We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving ...

Several London restaurants are bringing in new type of employee to help with serving and cooking operations: robots. They say ...

You might assume that Tesla has the humanoid robot stage to itself, but several Chinese automakers are also sprinting toward the same goal. Among them, EV startup Xpeng is taking the lead, planning to ...

'We're not quite at the level where the robotic skin is as good as human skin, but we think it's better than anything else out there at the moment.' Image: Dr. David Hardman, University of Cambridge ...

At ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab, engineers have created ANYmal-D, a four-legged robot that can play badminton with people. This project brings together robotics, artificial intelligence and sports ...

A recent video shows how a humanoid robot can turn itself into a surprisingly creepy crawling machine, using the full extent of its limbs.

Jordan Harrison's sci-fi tale about robots that help people grieve receives its first Broadway production with Cynthia Nixon.