General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

Rather than pushing a futuristic, machine-forward aesthetic, XPENG leans into recognisable visual cues such as body shape, ...

A fascinating glimpse of tomorrow was provided at 2022's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Among the countless technological marvels unveiled at the fair, the humanoid robot, Ameca was among the ...

Looking for a home humanoid robot that will clean your house, cook your food, and maybe even take the dog for a walk? It just got one step closer ...

Picture a robot. What comes to mind? Perhaps a droid from Star Wars or The Jetsons: a machine that can move, speak and perform tasks all by itself. Or maybe your imagination jumps to humanoid robots à ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognize objects, navigate ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We ...

Xpeng's humanoid robot moves so realistically that crowds believed it was fake, marking a major advancement in robotics ...

In a “major leap” towards using more robots in operating theatres, this machine trained on the videos of surgeries was able to precisely work on removing a gallbladder. Juo-Tung Chen/PA Media/Johns ...

Life-size dolls. Amusement park automatons. Realistic robots. Why do some of these humanlike forms elicit positive responses, while others seem disturbing and downright creepy? Are humans hard-wired ...