The rivalry could be one for the ages—right up there with the feud between Bill Gates and the late Steve Jobs.

Unitree Robotics has launched the R1, a remarkable humanoid robot capable of walking, running, dancing, cartwheeling, and even kung-fu kicks. It can also respond to voice commands and hold basic ...

Elon Musk has repeatedly promised that Tesla’s humanoid robot revolution is just around the corner. So far, however, his Optimus prototypes seem to spend most of their time mixing cocktails and ...

Scientists have developed HydroSpread, a novel technique for building soft robots on water, with wide-ranging possibilities ...

Rodney Brooks, a renowned roboticist who co-founded iRobot and is a former MIT researcher, has warned that current ...

Diligent Robotics co-founder Vivian Chu said her "minimum viable humanoid" robots are already helping hospital staff save ...

A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.

University of Virginia researcher Baoxing Xu’s research group introduces HydroSpread, an innovative fabrication method that ...

A collision in West Hollywood between a delivery robot and a man using a mobility scooter went viral, generating attacks on the robot company and on the man himself.

Later scenes show even harder impacts. A running kick sends the robot sliding several feet. A double shove in quick succession forces it to make a mid-air adjustment. In every case, it lands, scans ...

From drones and humanoid robots to collaborative “cobots” designed to work alongside humans, sophisticated machines are ...