Xpeng's humanoid robot moves so realistically that crowds believed it was fake, marking a major advancement in robotics ...

While neurotic robots are a staple of science fiction — just think of C-3PO in Star Wars or Marvin in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — they haven't really been a focus of research into how ...

Humanoid robots have been promised for decades, but most still look and move like machines. Ameca changes that, with a face ...

Many lonely people would rather deal with a robot than interact with an actual human, according to research co-led by Newcastle University. Contrary to the common assumption that lonely people would ...

The presence of robots in schools is no longer surprising. How do elementary school children treat humanoid robots? Are they ...

Courtney doesn’t have eyes, but it’s got sensors everywhere. There are two blinking lights on the front of its boxy body to approximate wide, moony pupils. It’s been described as a “large cooler on ...

A dozen or so young men and women, eyes obscured by VR headsets, shuffle around a faux kitchen inside a tech company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Their arms are bent at the elbows, palms facing down ...

The robots will guide travelers, haul boxes, and even swap their own batteries. Births in China, meanwhile, are still running ...

EAST LANSING — When the "Happy Birthday" song began, it seemed as if all the customers in the Royal Pot restaurant heard it at the same time. As sound grew louder, a robot with a cat-like face wheeled ...

Jordan Harrison's sci-fi tale about robots that help people grieve receives its first Broadway production with Cynthia Nixon.

CMU evaluated how robots using LLMs behave when they have access to personal information such as a person’s gender, ...

Artificial intelligence is seeping into daily life more like a slow tide than a tsunami, yet the companies building its ...