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

A new study has found that a robot’s feedback during a collaborative task can influence the feeling of closeness between the ...

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

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 ...

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

There are two things that I really appreciate about this video on grippers from Boston Dynamics. First, building a gripper while keeping in mind that the robot will inevitably fall onto it, because ...

BACK IN WITH THE WORK BEING DONE AT CMU. ALL THIS WEEK, WE’VE BEEN TAKING YOU TO THE FUTURE, WHICH IS BEING DEVELOPED RIGHT IN THE HEART OF PITTSBURGH. WE’VE SEEN A DOG, A SNAKE, SOME HANDS, AND WE ...

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Robots excel at many things, but having a good sense of touch is not among them. Whether dropping items or pinching them too tightly which crushes the object, many robots struggle with ...

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, ...