GIVING ROBOTS PERCEPTION Every kid who every played with Transformers toys was probably more enamored with their shape-shifting abilities, but you can’t have a living, humanoid robot without ...

Ken Goldberg shares his thoughts about the “humanoid hype” and the emerging paradigm shift in the robotics field.

Robots played soccer, shot arrows, and occasionally froze for a battery change at an event at the birthplace of the Olympic Games.

Building a robot that’s both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction. While the latest artificial intelligence craze has sparked another wave ...

The Transformers have a complex and inconsistent history,, but they remain both alien and robot throughout.

Atlas, Boston Dynamics’ dancing humanoid, can now use a single model for walking and grasping—a significant step toward ...

Tesla is suffering a global downturn in sales in the face of tough competition from China and public unease over the ...

Two ETFs have made their first move toward a robotics-driven future, each with a unique take on what may become a $5 trillion sector by 2050.

Human-robot interaction suggests there’ll likely be many contexts where robots don’t displace workers but rather make the ...