Robots are beginning to appear in the public arena, such as in restaurants and supermarkets. But most are still hidden away in industrial settings, including warehouses and factories. That is set to ...

Humanoid robots are invited to compete in a Beijing half marathon in April, which will pit humans and two-legged robots against each other for the first time. The 21-kilometre race will include over ...

Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but human psychology and the uncanny valley may stand between them and world ...

Whether robots could one day think for themselves and the how this would affect humans' relationships with them is a common subject in science fiction. However, novelists are increasingly ...

Robots are machines that can sense the environment and use that information to perform an action. You can find them nearly everywhere in industrialized societies today. There are household robots that ...

Discover how a recent study explores trust between humans and robots during emergencies, even amidst obvious robot mistakes. Would people trust a hamburger-making robot to provide them with food? If a ...

"A lot of money will have disappeared, spent on trying to squeeze performance, any performance, from today’s humanoid robots.

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Thousands of runners lined up next to 21 humanoid robots for the 13-mile race in Beijing on Saturday. The robots, some as small as 3ft 9, with others as tall as 5ft 9, were able to walk and run on two ...