This summer, I found myself in the strange position of watching a humanoid robot try to load laundry. It squatted beside a ...

In a new video (below) released this week by robotics specialist Unitree, its G1 humanoid robot is shown performing a number ...

It's been a goal for as long as humanoids have been a subject of popular imagination—a general-purpose robot that can do rote ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists have made a walking, jumping robot that pushes the ...

Inside a UNC-Chapel Hill Science lab sits an autonomous robot. Imagine a machine like a Roomba, but with an arm, so it can pick up things like a dirty sock off the floor. A group of researchers from ...

Instead of shutting down to recharge, the Walker S2 walks to a nearby swap station. When one battery starts to run low, the robot turns its torso, uses built-in tools on its arms and removes the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) James Pikul, University of Wisconsin-Madison (THE CONVERSATION) Earlier this year, a ...

Many of the environments where human-facing universal robots can provide benefits — homes, hospitals, schools — are sensitive and personal.

On a different note, any specific reason we focus so much on humanoids? Are they the most flexible “morphology” (for lack of a better term), or the model we’re most comfortable with? Click to expand..