Picture a robot. What comes to mind? Perhaps a droid from Star Wars or The Jetsons: a machine that can move, speak and perform tasks all by itself. Or maybe your imagination jumps to humanoid robots à ...

In a “major leap” towards using more robots in operating theatres, this machine trained on the videos of surgeries was able to precisely work on removing a gallbladder. Juo-Tung Chen/PA Media/Johns ...

Ameca is being called the world’s most realistic humanoid robot, and in this video, you’ll see why. From hyperrealistic facial movements to cutting-edge AI, Ameca represents a major leap forward.

From expressive robot faces to factory deployments, these seven stories shaped how 2025 will be remembered in humanoid ...

And, before that, Krieger's Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, STAR, performed the first autonomous robot surgery on a live animal – a laparoscopic surgery on a pig – in 2022. But it was much more heavily ...

The dataset is built from 10 real-world simulated environments in the RealMan Beijing Humanoid Robot Data Training Center.

A Chinese robotics company has unveiled what it describes as a realistic robot face, with plans to make humanoid robots more approachable and relatable. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Freaked-out viewers are hoping the engineers quit while they’re a head. Robots are looking far less robotic as time goes on. Now, a Chinese robotics company is alarming viewers after unveiling the ...

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AMES, Iowa – You may not remember it, but odds are you took a few tumbles during your toddler era. You weren’t alone. Falling, after all, is a natural consequence of learning to crawl, walk, climb and ...

Life-size dolls. Amusement park automatons. Realistic robots. Why do some of these humanlike forms elicit positive responses, while others seem disturbing and downright creepy? Are humans hard-wired ...

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 ...