Protoclone is supposedly the world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android. But it's mostly just got people creeped out.

The bot, which will be available for preorder this year, walks, talks, washes dishes and clothes, makes sandwiches and pours ...

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Boston Dynamics Wednesday announced a partnership designed to bring improved reinforcement learning to its electric Atlas humanoid robot. The tie-up is with the Robotics & AI Institute (RAI ...

Amazon has stepped up its robotics development in recent years, and it could save the e-commerce giant as much as $10 billion annually, Morgan Stanley analysts wrote in a research note on Sunday.

And seriously, what’s more user-friendly, a creepy robot voice that will probably ask you to accept cookies or a furry face with earnest eyes asking if you’d share just one of those french fries?

Carnegie Mellon University and NVIDIA have teamed up to develop a new training technique that enables humanoid robots to perform complex athletic movements with unprecedented agility—from Cristiano ...

Pokemon Center Online has started selling Gardevoir plushies. Life-sized Gardevoir plushies, mind. And the images are totally not creeping me out. Not at all. Coming in at 49,500 yen (around £260 ...

But the word "robot" was first introduced by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in his 1921 play R.U.R., which stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots).

Hangzhou-based Unitree forecasts a breakthrough in humanoid robot capabilities by 2026, when these automatons are enabled with more advanced perception, comprehension and task-execution capabilities.