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 ...

Robotics combines computer science, engineering, and technology to design, construct, and utilize machines that are programmed to replicate or substitute human actions and decision-making. These ...

Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making bigger promises.

Silicon Valley startup Foundation isn't shy about employing its humanoid robots in the defense industry. And yes, the CEO is ...

AgiBot, a humanoid robotics company based in Shanghai, has engineered a way for two-armed robots to learn manufacturing tasks through human training and real-world practice on a factory production ...

A dozen or so young men and women, eyes obscured by VR headsets, shuffle around a faux kitchen inside a tech company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Their arms are bent at the elbows, palms facing down ...

In a video published this week by China’s UBTech, hundreds of the firm’s humanoid robots march in unison, lining up neatly or stomping in rhythm, as they pack themselves into delivery trucks. The ...

Memo may not be the world’s fastest barista, but it is impressive—for a robot. I recently watched as Memo, a new home robot from a company called Sunday Robotics, made coffee in an open-plan kitchen ...

China has turned a science fiction trope into industrial policy, opening a dedicated “robot school” where humanoid machines are drilled in everything from factory work to household chores. The project ...

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, ...

Lecturer of Marketing in the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University For years, the expression “the robot took my job” has brought to mind visions of machines replacing ...