Agility Robotics' robot Digit performs gestures at the company's office in Pittsburgh, on Aug. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Freed) (AP) -- Building a robot that's both human-like and useful is a ...

The 2025 World Robot Conference (WRC), which launched on Friday in Beijing, highlighted the direction of future development in embodied intelligent robots - with a focus on areas like cognition, ...

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The Cabinet Office plans to make developing multipurpose humanoid robots a new goal under one of its research and development programs, according to sources.

Humanoid robots raced and punched their way through three days of a multi-sport competition at the World Humanoid Robot Games, wrapping up Sunday in Beijing. But they also toppled, crashed and ...

With Elon, China, Japan and others dead-set on producing humanoid robots, I wonder how lucrative these things can be, Ed confides to his diary. I pick up the blower and phone Greaser, “What are those ...