Probably the most famous mechanical chess player is the chess playing Turk by Wolfgang von Kempelen, unveiled in 1769 (see ...

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

If you accidentally put your hand on a hot object, you'll naturally pull it away fast, before you have to think about it.

While not 100% hands-free, it's miles ahead of where robot vacuums were only a few years ago.

UBTech rolls out its 1,000th Walker S2 robot, marking the shift from prototypes to large-scale, real-world humanoid ...