Elon Musk, whose electric automaker Tesla is building its own humanoid called Optimus, has said that the robots will be “the ...

Some robots that mimic emotion are already on the market—including Pepper, a small humanoid companion built by the French firm Aldebaran Robotics for the Japanese company Softbank Mobile, and ...

Tesla has a long way to go until it can successfully have AI-powered bipedal robots replace human jobs, according to a new ...

Tesla thinks it will be able to sell an Optimus robot to every single person on earth, all on its way to selling at least 20 ...

A new National Science Foundation project led by Oregon State University aims to build and distribute 50 standardized robots throughout the research community.

Ex-Robots Chief Executive Li Boyang says humanoid robots are the most complex type of robot to build. The company uses artificial intelligence to teach robots how to recognize human facial ...

The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior. His strategy: Give them a goal of making us more powerful.

The U.S. and China are racing to build humanoid robots capable of performing many daily tasks – but the complexity of home and business environments makes that challenging.

The new algorithm could help robots make safer, smarter decisions around humans, even amidst the greatest uncertainties.

Microsoft is bringing artificial intelligence to the masses, releasing a project that allows Minecraft programmers of any level to create their own human-like robot.

Japanese researchers covered a robot finger with a self-healing pliable sheet made of human skin cells. Why it matters Helping robots resemble humans could improve their integration with our society.

I think that the idea of empowerment does fill a niche. It keeps an agent from letting a human die, but once you’ve satisfied this very basic bottom line, it still has a continued drive to create ...