Tech companies are collectively spending billions to turn the age old sci-fi trope of humanoid, general-purpose robots into ...

The savvy marketers at Boston Dynamics produced two major robotics news cycles last week. The larger of the two was, naturally, the electric Atlas announcement. As I write this, the sub-40 second ...

One of the ways to illustrate how good a robot can be is to have it engage in fighting. Fighting requires the robot to ...

Boston Dynamics' creative marketing unveiled the new Atlas, the robotics community's biggest news. Nearly five million people have seen the launch video, demonstrating the company's ongoing appeal.

Bipedal (two-legged) robots are sophisticated machines, but they are not the most graceful when things go wrong. A simple push, fall or an obstacle can send them crashing to the ground, often ...

Humanoid robots ran a half-marathon against humans for the first time on Saturday in Beijing. The race highlighted how far humanoid robots have advanced, and how far they still have to go. While some ...

Six of multiple possible assistance scenarios with a prototype of a new robot being developed at MIT. Top row: getting into/out of a bathtub, bending down to reach objects, and catching a fall. Bottom ...