Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot Atlas was one of the names missing out in the inaugural Robot Olympics in China last week. It was absent – but for a reason. Engineers at the Massachusetts-based ...

The development of advanced robots like Atlas continues to illustrate “Moravec’s Paradox,” a concept highlighting the surprising difficulty robots face with tasks humans find simple, such as motor ...

In a brief promotional video released earlier this month, a tall humanoid figure performs a slow pirouette, then drops into a ...

Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot may have skipped the inaugural “robot Olympics” in China last week, but that doesn’t mean the engineers behind the machine have been sitting around watching the world ...

The latest humanoid robot on the market can purportedly run across a grassy lawn, do cartwheels and even fist-fight – and it costs less than $6,000. In a promotional video from China’s Unitree ...

Robotics engineers worldwide are tackling one of the most challenging frontiers in artificial intelligence and mechanical ...

Later this year, Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work in a Hyundai factory. The new version of the bot, evolved from the hydraulic Atlas model that’s been ...

Aug. 20 (UPI) --A humanoid robot can now perform complex tasks with a large behavior model without needing hand programming for each task. Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute announced this ...

Tesla chief Elon Musk said in a call with investors on Wednesday that his team is “on the cusp of something really tremendous ...

Chinese robotics firm Unitree has launched the R1, its most affordable humanoid robot, at a shockingly low asking price of US$5,900. It's hard to fathom that you can now get a walking, command-obeying ...