Think of actuators as the robot’s muscles —the technology that enables humanoids to move. Actuators come in three types: ...

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

Here’s the catch that’s dividing opinions: NEO has a brain that isn’t all its own. This robot relies on both AI and human ...

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

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, ...

Pop culture has often depicted robots as cold, metallic, and menacing, built for domination, not compassion. But at Georgia ...

X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?

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

University of Chicago computer scientist Sarah Sebo is programming robots to give empathetic responses and perform nonverbal ...

Foxconn, the biggest electronics manufacturer in the world, announced Tuesday it plans to bring human-like robots into its ...

We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving ...

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, ...