How advanced actuators, compliance control, and real-time planning create capable, safe humanoid collaborators.

In a world where technology is advancing at an unprecedented rate, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are transforming every aspect of life—including love and relationships. What was once a far ...

To effectively tackle a variety of real-world tasks, robots should be able to reliably grasp objects of different shapes, textures and sizes, without dropping them in undesired locations. Conventional ...

A video from a China-based company showing a human-like robot face is spreading online. It's giving major Westworld vibes. AheadForm is a Chinese robotics company founded in 2024 working on combining ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions in real time based on a human speaker's intent—a ...

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 titular character of the Apple TV+ series “Murderbot” doesn’t call itself Murderbot because it identifies as a killer; it just thinks the name is cool. Murderbot, a.k.a. “SecUnit,” is programmed ...

Will the robots take over the world? Will we become their slaves? No, the robots in Arco are not like that at all. They’re actually useful and often more caring than humans.

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, ...

John McCormick receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Robots come in a vast array of shapes and sizes. By definition, they’re machines that perform automatic tasks and can be operated ...