It’s been quite a year for humanoid robots, with all manner of increasingly advanced designs coming to our attention. The ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

In the latest episode of What the Future, we run down the best highlights and fails from the first World Humanoid Robot Games held last week in China. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video ...

First, though, the machines will have to learn how to pour water or carry soup, as a Chinese restaurant that replaced its wait staff with robots quickly learned. If we trusted this drone to get little ...

Robots are starting to do in a few days what medicinal chemists once needed months to attempt, churning out hundreds of ...

Who's believing this propaganda? These so-called robots are just machines built to do a very specific task. I have not seen a single robot, live in person, doing anything useful, because they can't ...

One of the most significant insights from the study is that roboticists must engage both technically and physically with ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian space capsule carrying a humanoid robot has failed to dock as planned with the International Space Station. A statement from the Russian space agency Roscosmos said the failure ...