The “plot,” such as it is, is a very short, very slapstick take on The Terminator, as a man’s hubris (turning a crank to make ...

We’ve come across video after video of humanoid robots performing backflips, delivering punches — and even a clip of a robot kicking the CEO of its maker squarely in the chest. Don’t get us wrong, the ...

It’s warm bot-tied. Techsperts are sounding alarm bells following the release of an eerily realistic humanoid service bot named Moya with camera eyes and, most creepily, warm skin. Dystopian footage ...

Xpeng Motors CEO He Xiaopeng yesterday played down concerns after the company’s humanoid robot, IRON, fell during its first public appearance at a shopping mall in Shenzhen, calling the incident a ...

University of Texas spinout Apptronik, a builder of humanoid robots for Google DeepMind among others, on Wednesday announced that it re-opened its Series A to raise a total of $935 million for the ...

A newly rediscovered 1897 short by famed French filmmaker Georges Méliès is being hailed as the first-ever depiction of a robot in cinema.

At this stage of the robotics race, it's probably fair to assume that a few of us have a bit of humanoid malaise. After all, we've seen more funny videos of robots dropping plates out of dishwashers ...

There's a reason many robotics companies don't try to make their machines look human. The closer you get to replicating a real face and real skin, somehow the weirder the whole thing feels. It's a ...

For decades, humanoid robots have lived behind safety cages in factories or deep inside research labs. Fauna Robotics, a New York-based robotics startup, says that era is ending. The company has ...