China kicked off the three-day long World Humanoid Robot Games on Friday, looking to showcase its advances in artificial intelligence and robotics with 280 teams from 16 countries. Robots competed in ...

Atlas, the humanoid robot famous for its parkour and dance routines, has recently begun demonstrating something altogether more subtle but also a lot more significant: It has learned to both walk and ...

280 teams from 16 countries compete in Beijing robot games Games provide data for practical robot applications, organisers say China invests billions in robotics amid tech competition with U.S BEIJING ...

A robot drew cheers from the packed crowd at China’s inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games — until it spectacularly face-planted and had to be hauled off stage by two real people. The pratfall during ...

In what may become one of the most controversial advances in medical technology, a Chinese research team has developed a humanoid robot equipped with a fully functional artificial womb, capable of ...

The Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing — featuring running, kickboxing and soccer — highlighted advancements in robotics. Limitations, too. By Yan Zhuang There’s a very real concern that robots could ...

Humanoid robots danced hip-hop, performed martial arts and played keyboard, guitar and drums at the opening ceremony of the first World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Thursday evening. The ...

The Tencent-backed start-up plans to acquire a controlling stake in Swancor Advanced Materials for US$279 million Tencent Holdings-backed AgiBot plans to acquire a controlling stake in a ...

Implements human-like whole-body force sensing and compliance across arms, fingers, and waist; introduces a new high-DOF compliant hand, a low-friction backdrivable arm, and a gravity-compensated ...

A robotics entrepreneur says his company is involved in the creation of a "pregnancy robot," and that a prototype could be ready as early as next year. "Some people don't want to get married but still ...