Researchers from Cornell University have released a framework called BeyondMimic that allows humanoid robots to perform ...

Scott LaValley, CEO of Cartwheel Robotics, says robot makers should prioritize social acceptance over capabilities interview ...

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Many lonely people would rather deal with a robot than interact with an actual human, according to research co-led by ...

Discover HITTER, a UC Berkeley humanoid robot that plays table tennis using AI-powered planning to outsmart human players.

This Chinese humanoid robot combines language understanding with a disturbance-resistant gait, pointing to the future of ...

Researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and Brown University in Providence (U.S.) have ...

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 machines continue to rise. Researchers used artificial intelligence (AI) to train a robotic program to do parts of a gallbladder removal surgery, or a cholecystectomy. The robotic surgeon ...

U.S. robotics firm Figure’s humanoid robot has become the first with multi-fingered hands to fully autonomously fold laundry, demonstrating human-like precision in a new video. Footage released ...

Alright, you probably aren’t ready for this but there’s some wild news coming out of China that could seriously change how we think about making babies. A Chinese company, Kaiwa Technology, is working ...

Performance is only part of the story. If you're ready to hand over lawn maintenance to a robot, these are the things to consider before letting one loose in your garden. I’ve contributed to PCMag ...