In a TED Talk, US robotics firm 1X Technologies featured its humanoid NEO, a robot designed to help people with home chores. In a live demonstration, led by the San Francisco Bay Area firm’s founder, ...

Beijing recently hosted the much-anticipated “world’s first humanoid robot half-marathon,” aiming to display the advancements in robotics. However, instead of showcasing revolutionary breakthroughs, ...

Humanoid hype is dividing frenzied investors from skeptical roboticists, with reporters caught in between.

Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21-km (13-mile ...

It looks like humanoid robots have a long way to go before catching up with human runners. Beijing’s E-Town tech hub hosted what it described as the world’s first humanoid half-marathon on ...

Humanoid robots are catnip for the imagination. They dazzle at tech shows, mimicking our moves with eerie precision. I’m deeply impressed by the innovations powering robots that walk ...

It now appears that with those advances, we are at the precipice of building functional, dexterous, and autonomous humanoid robots that were once the topic of futurist writing. According to the ...