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 ...

Boston Dynamics has released a new explanation of one of Atlas’s most striking behaviors. It’s an eerie, contortion-like way ...

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 ...

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 ...

Atlas, the humanoid robot famous for its parkour and dance routines, has recently begun demonstrating something altogether more subtle but also a lot more significant: It has learned to both walk and ...

What can a humanoid robot actually do in the real world? If you’ve seen videos online of the Boston Dynamics Atlas robot or Tesla’s Optimus bot, you might have assumed that these machines are just ...

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 ...

In some rough ways the humanoid robot field is a bit like that of early automobiles. It's still the preserve of cutting-edge engineers and hobbyists, and one day soon we'll likely see upmarket luxury ...