BEIJING — It was not even close as a bright-red Chinese humanoid named “Lightning” lived up to its name in a half-marathon pitting humans against robots, smoking its competition on Sunday. The bipedal ...

Social by nature, humans interact in multiple ways—through voice, vision and touch. Reflecting these humanistic qualities, robotic capabilities are improving, and as such, human-robot interaction will ...

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Humanoid robots have surgically removed the gallbladders from living animals in an unprecedented medical experiment—but not ...

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ABB Robotics and PSYONIC explore using real human prosthetic touch data to train industrial robots for delicate gripping ...