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

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

To effectively tackle a variety of real-world tasks, robots should be able to reliably grasp objects of different shapes, textures and sizes, without dropping them in undesired locations. Conventional ...

University of Chicago computer scientist Sarah Sebo is programming robots to give empathetic responses and perform nonverbal ...

What makes a robot truly intelligent? Is it the ability to solve complex equations in milliseconds or something more human-like—such as recognizing a misplaced object in a cluttered room or adapting ...

DETROIT - No, your eyes are not deceiving you. You really did see an actual robot walking around the streets of Detroit. You may have even seen it running and waving, or maybe you shook its hand. The ...

A video from a China-based company showing a human-like robot face is spreading online. It's giving major Westworld vibes. AheadForm is a Chinese robotics company founded in 2024 working on combining ...

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 ...

So even though its foundational training is based on imitation, it has the flexibility to learn and improve, much like a human surgeon. Previously, the robot also achieved a 100% success rate when it ...

Another day, another humanoid robot breakthrough. While the U.S. and China have a growing number of firms developing cutting-edge humanoid robots — Boston Dynamics, Figure, Unitree, and EngineAI among ...

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...