UBTech has opened 2026 by taking its Walker S2 humanoid out of the lab and onto a tennis court, rallying live against a human ...

Twenty-five years of the new millennium have passed and we’re still waiting for the futuristic world we were promised: Living ...

Despite how advanced robots have become, getting them to feel the way humans do is an incredibly complex challenge.

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Researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and Brown University in Providence (USA) have discovered that people sense the hand of a humanoid robot as part of their ...

Each pilot moves the robot through a specialised program on their home computer, and can see and speak to guests. The project has now begun a new venture, tapping into Tokyo's tourism boom. Instead of ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

In 2015, a jovial three-foot-tall robot with pool noodles for arms set out on what seemed like a simple mission. Using the kindness of strangers, this machine, called “hitchBOT” would spend months ...

It was early January 2016, and I had just joined Google X, Alphabet’s secret innovation lab. My job: help figure out what to do with the employees and technology left over from nine robot companies ...