“The humanoid space has a very, very big hill to climb,” said Cosima du Pasquier, founder and CEO of Haptica Robotics, which ...

Xpeng's humanoid robot moves so realistically that crowds believed it was fake, marking a major advancement in robotics ...

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 ...

Rather than pushing a futuristic, machine-forward aesthetic, XPENG leans into recognisable visual cues such as body shape, ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

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 ...

Many lonely people would rather deal with a robot than interact with an actual human, according to research co-led by Newcastle University. Contrary to the common assumption that lonely people would ...

The struggle to be first in humanoid robots is the space race of our time, says Apptronik CEO Jeff Cardenas, who also says that major upgrades are coming to Apptronik’s appropriately-named Apollo ...

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 ...

A dozen or so young men and women, eyes obscured by VR headsets, shuffle around a faux kitchen inside a tech company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Their arms are bent at the elbows, palms facing down ...

CMU evaluated how robots using LLMs behave when they have access to personal information such as a person’s gender, ...

Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the commercial boom in ...