Designed for public-facing roles, Noetix’s Hobbs W1 combines a “female-styled” lifelike bionic head and interactive display with dexterous 6-DoF hands and 5-DoF robotic arms. The robot features fully ...

Humanoid robots spent 2025 straddling a strange line between breakthrough and blooper reel. They poured lattes, posed in ...

Companies looking to replace human staff with robots at hotels, restaurants and other service industries, should consider giving them a female face, study finds. For the study, 170 volunteers were ...

A factory in China is developing hyper-realistic humanoid robots that can chillingly mimic human facial expressions and emotions in scientists' latest attempt to replace workers with machines.

When we give AI a humanoid form, we typically choose the robot to have feminine characteristics. Are we playing on stereotypes? There is a popular idea that artificial intelligence (AI) is out to get ...

AN eerie robot factory in China pumps out “skin” covered droids that can be mistaken for a real person in a bid to replace humans. Bizarre footage shows humanoids with hyper-realistic features and ...

PANTING robots which groan in bed are being made by a British company aiming to change the way people think about sex. LoveDolls – which operates out of a huge factory in China – has updated its range ...

Tesla’s robot displayed at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference. Elon Musk has previously said that AI is ‘potentially more dangerous than nukes’ (AFP/Getty) The idea of a humanoid robot ...

Connecting artificial intelligence systems to the real world through robots and designing them using principles from evolution is the most likely way AI will gain human-like cognition, according to ...