The idea of a humanoid robot building an airplane may sound far-fetched, but a new deal between the European aviation giant Airbus and Chinese robot specialist UBTech suggests that such a scenario could be on the cards.

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU Dresden are pioneering a new approach to robotics by creating a collective of small robots that function like a smart material. According to Matthew Devlin, a former doctoral researcher in the lab of UCSB mechanical ...

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, it looks nothing like the sleek and intimidating humanoids built by companies like Tesla.

A team from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan has built the tiniest programmable, self-driving robots ever made—microscopic

Companies from around the world traveled to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month to show off their latest tech. But one category always catches everyone's eye: robots. Ever since Karel Čapek introduced the word "robot" in his 1920 play "R.

Scientists have discovered how to build robots out of rice paper, opening up brand new possibilities for robotic applications. A team from the University of Bristol discovered that the same ingredient used in Vietnamese spring rolls could rival the ...

Robots are quietly lining up for factory jobs and humans may soon be outnumbered or replaced entirely

With stats like that, one can’t help but suspect that the first country to have a million humanoids will be China.

The future of robotics is splitting into two ambitious, multi-trillion-dollar battlegrounds: automating the “zero labour home” and transforming the factory floor with “human-centred” AI-powered machines.