Despite huge technical progress, these robots are still clumsy at handling everyday tasks in homes or hospitals or other ...

SoftBank's humanoid robot "Pepper" can lead funerals. Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO/Alamy Live News News of a Japanese robot conducting Buddhist funerals got us thinking about how our robot-filled future ...

Most of the time, robots grabbing the headlines boil down to a machine doing one very specific thing in a very controlled lab, followed by a promise that this somehow changes everything. Normally, I ...

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 ...

There are plenty of videos of advanced robots doing various things online. These things usually include fighting, running outside, and performing other cool (but often useless) tasks. Then there is ...

Robots could soon do daily home tasks on their own. A new method helps them move both arms together and adjust when things change.

The robots will be unloading totes full of auto parts from an automated warehouse tugger.

The Figure 03 is a humanoid robot with a lofty goal. The company that makes it, Figure AI, wants to build a machine in the form of a human being, and put the bots to work across the global ...

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 ...

Elon Musk said Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots could be available for public purchase by the end of 2027, saying the robots should be reliable, safe and capable of a range of functions.