Uncanny ‘warm-skinned’ robot built to feel as human as possible could show up in service worker roles

It’s warm bot-tied. Techsperts are sounding alarm bells following the release of an eerily realistic humanoid service bot ...

Xiaomi-Backed RoboParty Launches ORIGIN: World's First-Tier Full-Stack Open-Source Bipedal Humanoid Robot, Forging Embodied Infrastructure

In January 2026, RoboParty launched ROBOTO ORIGIN's full-stack open-source on GitHub alongside a global developer co-creation program, breaking the industry's fragmented open-source model with a ...
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Flexible joints: robot morphs into a range of cyborg species

For a low-cost solution, Karthik Urs, then at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and his colleagues 3D printed a robot with legs that can be adapted to match those of various species — complete ...