Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21-km (13-mile) course.

What’s happened? Led by robotics Ph.D. student Paul Nadan, a team at Carnegie Mellon University has been developing the extraordinary Loris robot for several years. The latest version of the robot, ...

Humanoid robots pose unique safety risks. That's driving a push for new standards before they start sharing our workplaces and homes. Last year, a humanoid warehouse robot named Digit set to work ...

Climbing robots represent a rapidly evolving field in robotics, offering innovative solutions for tasks that are often hazardous, labour‐intensive or inaccessible for humans. These systems utilise ...

If you thought bipedal robots were limited to the somewhat creepy and sweet breakdancing moves of Boston Dynamics' Atlas, think again, because the robots are now coming for your marathon medals. More ...

Like octopuses squeezing through a tiny sea cave, metatruss robots can adapt to demanding environments by changing their shape. These mighty morphing robots are made of trusses composed of hundreds of ...

Overview of this study. (A) Schematic of the body and neural circuit model of elongated fish such as eels. (B) CAD image of the developed eel-like robot. (C) Our interdisciplinary approach combining ...

One Massachusetts-based company just showed off their robots on America's Got Talent. On the June 10 episode of America's Got Talent, Boston Dynamics demonstrated their robots' dancing capabilities, ...