Abstract: The social robotics community is increasingly embracing human-centered techniques to design robots that align with users’ needs, preferences, and lived experiences. However, given the known ...

Chinese robotics company Unitree’s G1 humanoid robot has taken over the internet by storm, from videos of it shooting hoops like an absolute boss to the more dubious viral fame that comes from being ...

The Cybertruck, sycophantic AI, and humanoid robots all made this year’s list of the biggest technology failures. Welcome to our annual list of the worst, least successful, and simply dumbest ...

With support from J&J’s venture capital arm and chip maker Nvidia, Moon is targeting a soft tissue surgery market dominated by Intuitive Surgical.

Researchers have developed artificial tendons for muscle-powered robots. They attached the rubber band-like tendons (blue) to either end of a small piece of lab-grown muscle (red), forming a ...

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet. By Meaghan Tobin and Xinyun Wu Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Robots made by Chinese ...

SAN FRANCISCO—A variety of start-ups are developing and manufacturing humanoid robots for factories, warehouses, healthcare providers and even households. Now, a new start-up, Foundation Future ...

Abstract: Ceiling painting is an essential yet labor-intensive task in the construction industry, making automation necessary to overcome issues such as inconsistent manual quality and associated ...

You’ve heard of laid-off workers training their lower-paid replacements. Now imagine that the replacement worker is a robot. Something like that is going on in Watertown, at a company called Tutor ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. Chinese robot manufacturer Unitree just launched the “world’s first” humanoid robot app ...