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 Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...

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, ...

A Chinese robotics company is capturing global attention after showcasing a humanoid robot head with shockingly lifelike ...

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, ...

Robotics is about more than mechanized pets and anthropomorphized humans. Here are two high-level truths essential to ...

Shanghai-based Kepler Robotics said its humanoid robot K2 “Bumblebee” can now walk with a straight-knee human-like gait while ...

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 ...

Remotely operated by their human teams, the robots will be tested for agility and skill competing in 26 events like football, martial arts, gymnastics, and track and field events like running and a ...

A specialized training facility in China has taken on its first cohort of 'robot students'. Located in Hefei—capital of the eastern province of Anhui—this new 'robot school' is being used to teach ...