NEW YORK -- As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand with its grippers ...
The Columbia University researchers achieved the feat by allowing their robot, EMO, to study itself in a mirror. It learned how its flexible face and silicone lips would move in response to the ...
Sprout, a 3 1/2-foot-tall humanoid from Fauna Robotics, debuts with a soft foam body, expressive moves and a friendly vibe.
With stats like that, one can’t help but suspect that the first country to have a million humanoids will be China.
A Chinese robotics firm has demonstrated what it calls a major step toward the ...
Even with those limitations, orders for the machines are accelerating. Manufacturers such as BYD and Foxconn, both partners ...
Unlike traditional industrial grippers, which are optimized for repetitive, single-purpose tasks, ROBOTERA’s hands are anthropomorphic, five-fingered systems built for varied, unstructured ...
Living with robots could lead to plenty of societal improvements, but they also pose risks to how we socialize and co-exist ...
Elon Musk said Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots could be available for public purchase by the end of 2027, saying the robots ...
Robots performing human labor in factories has long been thought of as eventual. Hyundai is currently training robots to ...
Three robotics experts said humanoid robots need to move beyond flashy demos to performing tasks that are actually useful in ...
Last year, when The New York Times reported that Amazon's robotics team's ultimate goal was to automate 75% of the company's operations, replacing more than half a million human jobs in an attempt to ...