No basketball. No volleyball, long jump, or steeplechase. Instead, the robot Olympics will have events that reflect how ...

The more we interact with robots, the more human we perceive them to become—according to new research from the University of East Anglia, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human ...

Aria, a hyper-realistic humanoid robot manufactured by Realbotix as a companion, friend, and maybe more. For $175,000 you too can have a hyper-realistic full-body humanoid robot as personal companion ...

AlphaBot 2 wants to beat humans at their own game. When the robot is asked if it wants to play dice, it can interpret the question and jump into action – pressing the button on an automatic dice ...

I’ve been teaching robotics at the University of Washington for more than a decade. Every class begins with “robotics news of the week.” For years, humanoid robots appeared only occasionally—usually ...

People will sit and talk and say, ‘this is going to be the future,’ it’s like, no, this is right now. The future is here,” ...

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 ...

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet.

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 ...

Six of multiple possible assistance scenarios with a prototype of a new robot being developed at MIT. Top row: getting into/out of a bathtub, bending down to reach objects, and catching a fall. Bottom ...