X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?

Humanoid robot training is booming around the world. Tech companies are rushing to build the robots for a market projected to ...

Though Atlas was designed to resemble a person in other ways, its hands aren’t exactly one-to-one. Instead, company engineers ...

Think of actuators as the robot’s muscles —the technology that enables humanoids to move. Actuators come in three types: ...

The bipedal bot, which has been a decade in development, stands at 66 inches and tips the scales at 66 pounds. It ...

Have you ever wanted to wipe down a table hundreds of times while Elon Musk watches? Training Tesla's humanoid robot might be the job for you.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Humanoid robots struggle with basic tasks like walking safely and lack the dexterity needed for complex human-like ...

Courtney doesn’t have eyes, but it’s got sensors everywhere. There are two blinking lights on the front of its boxy body to approximate wide, moony pupils. It’s been described as a “large cooler on ...

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Matt Carney was good at building robots — he just didn’t want to. While earning his PhD at MIT, he’d spent years studying mechanical engineering and biomechatronics in service of developing bionic ...

Amazon will soon use more robots in its warehouses than human employees — with more than 1 million machines already deployed across facilities, according to a report. Many of these robots cover the ...