Robots like Atlas, Spot, and Stretch have amazed people with natural, life-like agility and body balance. What they were lacking, though, was a way to quickly connect this natural movement to ...

Researchers have programmed a Unitree G1 humanoid robot to play basketball, almost perfectly mimicking the skills of a human ...

Researchers have previously added arms to these dog-like machines and taught them how to fetch particular objects or open doors by grabbing the handle. But coordinating limb control and visual ...

What can’t robots do these days? As the the engineering society IEEE’s robotics page shows, there’s a robot for everything these days, so why not a robot to play ping pong? Researchers at China’s ...

A former Tesla engineer left the electric automaker's humanoid robotics team to co-found a startup operating in Palo Alto, California, and Shenzhen, China. The engineer, Shuo Yang, was part of the ...

A pair of computer science and neuroscience students at Northeastern University gave the phrase “playing like a robot” new meaning. Second-year students Nikhil Mukraj and Jacob Shechter recently ...

When it comes to robot musicians, talent runs the gamut about as much as it does for humans. From the bizarre double-armed machine that made a guest appearance in Sweden last fall when it played cello ...

Smarter data processing could make machines more helpful and energy-efficient in the real world. A good way to test this principle is robot soccer. Robots perceive the world around them very ...

Tom Yeung here with today’s Smart Money. In the 1962 pilot episode of The Jetsons, Jane Jetson, a space-age housewife, wants a robot maid. The family can’t afford one, and so they end up at a U-Rent A ...

From a Star Wars-style droid for your home to a Pixar-inspired lamp bot, these are the most interesting and innovative robots we've seen so far at CES. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...