Hundreds of humanoid robots have been brought together in Beijing, China, for the inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games. The three-day event kicked off on Friday and involves more than 500 humanoid ...

A panda-shaped robot moved through tai chi routines as machines designed after the terra-cotta warriors marched in step. Mechanical versions of Chinese pop culture icons such as the Monkey King and ...

Human biology is very complicated, so building machines that can walk like us — let alone run and play sports — is difficult. For example, in robot soccer, participants didn't pass the ball to each ...

We tend to get fixated on realizing certain contraptions from science fiction, no matter how impractical. Flying cars. Jet packs. And now, humanoid robots. Yet few of these promised robots have ...

Inside a UNC-Chapel Hill Science lab sits an autonomous robot. Imagine a machine like a Roomba, but with an arm, so it can pick up things like a dirty sock off the floor. A group of researchers from ...