Tech companies are collectively spending billions to turn the age old sci-fi trope of humanoid, general-purpose robots into ...

Humanoid robots have been promised for decades, but most still look and move like machines. Ameca changes that, with a face and body language so nuanced that people instinctively treat it less like a ...

What is in the pipeline? Humanoid robots that can obey commands, make decisions, and deftly perform manual tasks have long been a sci-fi fantasy. Now they are becoming reality. Artificial intelligence ...

Having a robot housekeeper like Rosie from The Jetsons cartoon isn’t all that far-fetched. In fact, it’s becoming a reality — but with a few caveats. NEO is a humanoid robot designed to take on daily ...

No basketball. No volleyball, long jump, or steeplechase. Instead, the robot Olympics will have events that reflect how ...

Meet Sparrow, Cardinal and Proteus. They’re the robots that, step by step, are replacing human workers in the company’s warehouses. By Karen Weise Karen Weise reported from Shreveport, La., and has ...

Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, the recent popularity of anti-robot lingo ...

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 ...