Humanoid robots have been promised for decades, but most still look and move like machines. Ameca changes that, with a face and body language so nuanced that people instinctively treat it less like a ...

Neura Robotics officially unveiled the third generation of its 4NE-1 humanoid robot this week, along with a household robot named MiPa, an open robotics ecosystem called the Neuraverse, and a vision ...

When Steven Spielberg took over directing A.I., he wanted to follow Stanley Kubrick's plan to use a real robot as the lead.

Shares in Chinese technology group Xpeng (XPEV) rocketed higher today after it launched the most human of humanoid robots. Unveiled today at the 2025 Xpeng tech day, the next-generation IRON humanoid ...

Unlike most other robots, Tomorrow Woman had no idea of her artificial nature or her intended purpose. Tomorrow Woman was created by the mad scientists T. O. Morrow and Professor Ivo. She was designed ...

How we relate to humanoid robots matters. In the video below, Cleo Abram demonstrates what it was like to mistreat the Boston Dynamics Atlas robot. She was surprised by her emotional reaction. She ...

Elon Musk has recently touted an audacious vision for Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot, positing that it could supplant most human surgeons within three years and surpass even the most elite ...

Sometimes heroes aren’t born, they’re built. Robots have been a long-standing staple of science fiction and superhero stories, and the Marvel Universe has no shortage of mechanical characters. Some ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...