Though Atlas was designed to resemble a person in other ways, its hands aren’t exactly one-to-one. Instead, company engineers ...

University of Chicago computer scientist Sarah Sebo is programming robots to give empathetic responses and perform nonverbal ...

It’s useful to think about Ford alongside the evolution of workers at Amazon. Presently the U.S.’s second largest employer, ...

If most robots still need remote human operators to be safe and effective, why should we welcome them into our homes? The world might seem to be on the brink of a humanoid-robot heyday. New ...

Goldman Sachs is also bullish on the growth of this market. The Wall Street firm's "base-case" estimate is for 1.4 million shipments of humanoids by 2035. Its "bull-case" projects unit shipments to ...

It sounds like something from a sci-fi film - but some scientists believe this clever new tech could help alleviate strains ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions in real time based on a human speaker's intent—a ...