No basketball. No volleyball, long jump, or steeplechase. Instead, the robot Olympics will have events that reflect how ...

The struggle to be first in humanoid robots is the space race of our time, says Apptronik CEO Jeff Cardenas, who also says that major upgrades are coming to Apptronik’s appropriately-named Apollo ...

AI and robotics have stirred unease in the public, but good design principles can help avoid problems, writes Serve Robotics' ...

Tech companies are collectively spending billions to turn the age old sci-fi trope of humanoid, general-purpose robots into ...

Tech titans from Elon Musk to SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son have envisioned humanoid robots working next to people in factories, schools and homes. Realizing that future will require humanoid makers to ...

Six of multiple possible assistance scenarios with a prototype of a new robot being developed at MIT. Top row: getting into/out of a bathtub, bending down to reach objects, and catching a fall. Bottom ...

When it’s person versus machine, people don’t like to perform worse than their robot counterparts. And when they do, defeat hurts their confidence, a new Cornell study found. Past research on ...

A research team from the Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit and the Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology, ...

I’ve been teaching robotics at the University of Washington for more than a decade. Every class begins with “robotics news of the week.” For years, humanoid robots appeared only occasionally—usually ...

EAST LANSING — When the "Happy Birthday" song began, it seemed as if all the customers in the Royal Pot restaurant heard it at the same time. As sound grew louder, a robot with a cat-like face wheeled ...

NASA is quietly rewriting the script for human exploration of the Red Planet, turning robots from remote-controlled tools ...

Ukraine is looking to build a fleet of ground robots for assault, minelaying, and logistics missions, Mykhailo Fedorov told Business Insider.