On the 16th, local time, in the morning, at the University of California, Berkeley’s humanoid center, the ‘EMBER’ lab. Amid research humanoid robots placed throughout the space, a desk held an electric driver and other tools alongside a robot’s right leg.

We’ve seen plenty of robot appendages designed to decrease exertion, from futuristic exoskeletons that can allow you to climb thousands of steps without breaking a sweat to arm braces that can take the load off at the car factory when working overhead.

For decades, humanoid robots have lived behind safety cages in factories or deep inside research labs. Fauna Robotics, a New York-based robotics startup, says that era is ending. The company has introduced Sprout, a compact humanoid robot designed from the ...

Hardware was only affordable to the most well-funded labs, and now it's in the range where labs and even small companies can think about buying one. Read more here.