“Finally, an update to that Ameca face we’ve seen for years,” exclaimed one, referencing Engineered Arts’ now-famous humanoid ...
The new system uses a wearable exoskeleton to record human motion and teach humanoid robots complex, full-body skills.
China’s National University of Defense Technology has partnered with appliance maker Midea Group to introduce HumanoidExo. It is a system with a wearable suit that records full-body motion for robots ...
A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.
Chinese scientists have reportedly unveiled plans for the world’s first humanoid robot capable of carrying a pregnancy to term. Led by Dr. Zhang Qifeng of Kaiwa Technology in Guangzhou, the project is ...
Until now, robots have been able to walk on flat surfaces. Even then, they've needed almost constant human guidance. These ...
A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie Mellon University's Ren lab. Referred to as AggreBots, these microscale living ...
One of the original stereotypes about robots is that their movements are stiff and abrupt, something that endures in the “robot dance” that first became popular in the 1980s. Robots have since evolved ...
Robots are delivering to-go orders in cities like Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas. Are we embracing them too quickly — and are they actually helpful?
It was early January 2016, and I had just joined Google X, Alphabet’s secret innovation lab. My job: help figure out what to do with the employees and technology left over from nine robot companies ...