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

Researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology and Brown University in the US have found that people can “sense” a robot’s hand as an extension of their body. They found that performing a joint ...

Humanoid robots are stepping into the spotlight, performing live with human musicians, in an interesting study done by researchers. The robotic band, which included Oscar, a Robotis-OP3 who played the ...

The promise of the humanoid revolution is tantalizing: tireless mechanical workers marching into factories, warehouses, and ...

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 ...

One of the original stereotypes about robots is that their movements are stiff and abrupt, something that endures in the “robot dance” that first became popular in the 1980s. Robots have since evolved ...

This blond, "female" robot named Aria is powered by AI for her conversation skills, with 17 motors driving her facial expressions so she appears as human as possible. Corinne Reichert (she/her) grew ...

This week Amazon debuted a new warehouse robot that has a sense of "touch," but the company also promised its new bot will not replace human warehouse workers. On Monday, at Amazon's Delivering the ...

'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 ...

Welcome to this week’s episode of “man-made horrors beyond human comprehension.” A humanoid robot named DeREK had what you might call a “moment” on the floor of a San Francisco robotics lab this week, ...

As a runner with back problems since my early thirties and shoulder inflammation in recent years, I’ve had my fair share of massages. It’s been a long time, though, since I’ve had one that put me on a ...

Even if at some level they are pretty scary, it's always nice to see robots getting enhanced capabilities. After all, we've made them to help us, so that's what they should do, evolve to be able to ...