What better day than May 4 — known as Star Wars Day among fans of the franchise — to unveil a robot that aspires to hang with humans as comfortably as C-3PO, R2-D2 and BB-8? Robotics entrepreneur ...

Robots that look and move like people are no longer just science experiments or movie props. Some are already showing up in real jobs working in stores, helping in warehouses, or doing chores at home.

The team at TUM’s (Technical University of Munich) Learning Systems and Robotics Lab has developed a humble-looking robot that resembles a stick on wheels with a camera on top. However, don’t let the ...

From Boston Dynamics to Tesla, US companies are racing to build humanoid robots that can automate everything from factory ...

The biggest thing in operating rooms these days is a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci, used in nearly 400,000 surgeries nationwide last year — triple the number just four years earlier ...

The 4-foot-tall humanoid robot that’s in front of me seems, quite honestly, a bit drunk. It leaps from one leg to the other, waving its arms. After 30 seconds or so it abruptly stops, then strides ...