The race to mass-produce humanoid robots is on, and China and the US are in the lead. It's heavily about geopolitical power, ...

iCub is a research-grade humanoid robot, created by IIT, designed to help develop and test embodied AI algorithms. The iCub has 53 degrees of freedom, nine in each hand and most in the upper torso.

Sheffield Robotics is home to an upper-body iCub 2.0 robot (with head, arms, hands, and torso). The robot is particularly suited to research into human cognition and development, and robot learning.

In a video demonstration, a researcher asked the iCub robot to point to a guitar then asking it to move a violin to the left. Before performing the task, the robot repeated the sentence and ...

Scientists are painstakingly tweaking the electronic brain of iCub robots to make them capable of learning, just like a human child.