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

The researchers behind the recent work, based in China, decided to implement something similar for an artificial skin that ...

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, Mr. Brooks’s co-founder and C.E.O. at Robust.AI, which is building automated ...

Doctoral student Eshwara Prasad Sridhar demonstrates a robot exoskeleton on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, at UT Arlington's Research Institute in Fort Worth. Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer What if you ...

Midea has officially unveiled its next-generation humanoid robot, Miro U, at an event in Guangzhou, China. The robot is the world’s first to feature a six-arm wheel-leg design, and it is built for ...

Patients implanted with brain chips from Elon Musk’s Neuralink have begun to control robots’ arms with their thoughts, the company said. “Participants in our clinical trials have extended digital ...

Hugo is heading to the U.S., with Medtronic finally securing a stateside clearance for its robotic surgery platform. The FDA granted an initial green light to the soft-tissue system for urologic ...

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Meet Phantom MK1: an imposing humanoid robot designed to transform battlefields, the moon and even Mars—and it may already be taking jobs near you. The 5-foot-9, 176-pound steel and plastic android ...