Boston Dynamics partners with the RAI Institute to enhance reinforcement learning and mobile manipulation for the electric ...

Few technologies have captured the human imagination in quite the same way as robots. The idea of machines that can walk and talk like us has been a staple of science fiction for decades.

But the word "robot" was first introduced by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in his 1921 play R.U.R., which stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots).

Imagine a world where robots easily communicate with us and not only assist us with our household chores but also develop human-like traits, emotions, and skills. This futuristic vision was ...

The official demo videos of the Atlas robot are indeed quite impressive in their own right, but nowhere near as elaborate as the giant song-and-dance number put out by Unitree.

Researchers at Cornell University have been working on batteries that can 'flow' through the internal structures of robots, kind of like how blood in humans' veins powers our bodies. The team has ...

A Yangge folk dance performed by robots during the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Snake on Tuesday night has vowed users of some overseas social media, as the performance, using an ...

More than a dozen humanoid robots, dressed in traditional Yangge costumes and holding red handkerchiefs, took the stage and performed in perfect sync with the dancers. On stage, the humanoid robot ...

And it wasn't the only artificial intelligence company making headlines for supposedly ignoring instructions in robots.txt files to avoid scraping web content on certain sites. Around the same ...

We've been living with this plucky robot for a few months now. Cleaning one's own floors seems like a terribly 20th-century way to spend one's time, and the age of the robo-vac has well and truly ...

China will host the world's first half-marathon race between humans and robots. Dozens of humanoid robots are expected to join the 21km (13-mile) race in Beijing in April, according to local media.

The robot's 12-year-old inventor gazes back. "How would you describe yourself? Give me a five-word answer," Alex Rose tells his creation. AIRO, which stands for AI Robot, pauses and then ...