Although soft-bodied robots themselves can be fairly simple, low-cost devices, they typically require complex onboard electronics to control their locomotion. Such is not the case with a new bot ...

A hot potato: Recent efforts by tech companies to develop increasingly human-like autonomous robots have invited endless comparisons to the Terminator films. While the criticisms are usually made ...

The footage has fueled fears about the rapid advancement of robotics and AI. A chilling incident in a Chinese factory has sparked debate after a CCTV video showed a humanoid robot lashing out at ...

Amazon has developed a new warehouse robot that uses touch to rummage around shelves to find the right product to ship to customers. The robot, called Vulcan, is a meaningful step toward making ...

A video circulating online shows a Unitree H1 robot in China malfunctioning, reportedly due to a coding error, and nearly injuring factory workers. This incident follows another recent event where ...

For a robot vacuum to clean well, it has to be able to navigate a home like a human. That prompted a switch to the Nvidia Jetson Orin chip, which means the vacuum learns how to clean your house on ...

Robots are machines that can automatically perform both simple and complex actions. They are often programmed by a computer, but there's no single definition of a robot. Robots include a wide ...

Researchers have developed a new robotic framework powered by artificial intelligence -- called RHyME (Retrieval for Hybrid Imitation under Mismatched Execution) -- that allows robots to learn ...

Learn More. In a spectacle that combined elements of science fiction and athletics, China held its first-ever humanoid robot half-marathon over the weekend, pitting machines against more than ...

Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21-km (13-mile ...

It looks like humanoid robots have a long way to go before catching up with human runners. Beijing’s E-Town tech hub hosted what it described as the world’s first humanoid half-marathon on ...

But will they improve our lives? With a firm yet delicate grip, a robot hand at the Robotics and Biology Laboratory at the Technical University of Berlin picks up a flower with its pneumatic fingers.