Instead of shutting down to recharge, the Walker S2 walks to a nearby swap station. When one battery starts to run low, the robot turns its torso, uses built-in tools on its arms and removes the ...

At some point in the not-too-distant future, a doctor might instruct you to swallow a robot you can eat to deliver some sort of therapy with incredible precision or perform some kind of test. You'll ...

No matter how you feel about humanoid robots, they currently all have a technical limitation due to their form factor. Unless the robot is tethered to a power supply, it needs a battery, and unless ...

Enter NEO, a humanoid robot created by 1X, an artificial intelligence and robotics company based in Palo Alto, California.

Until now, the robot workforce has had to either be plugged in all of the time, or spend some time cabled to the mains to top up its battery pack. UBTech has launched the Walker S2 humanoid, with dual ...

This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. by Kurt Schlosser on Sep ...