Whether they’re delivering food or folding your laundry, consumer-facing robots are increasingly being designed to be more ...

A new humanoid robot aims for lifelike movement, expressions, and even a warm touch. The result is impressive, even if it's a little unsettling.

A Shanghai startup unveiled Moya, a humanoid robot with warm skin that feels disturbingly human. The biometric AI robot is launching in 2026 for $173,000.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They’re emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to ...

Robots are becoming smarter and more common, but their ability to handle objects with human-like precision remains limited. At Kennesaw State University, new research is enabling robots to better ...

GREENPORT — Story Screen Cinema will shutter Sunday, becoming the second movie theater to open and close at its location in under four years. The closure was due to “some major issues” with the ...

NEW YORK — As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand with its grippers, ...

From the street, the only indication I’ve found Physical Intelligence’s headquarters in San Francisco is a pi symbol that’s a slightly different color than the rest of the door. When I walk in, I’m ...

Google is testing a new grid-style UI for the Wallet home screen which focuses on “favorited” passes. The app will automatically favorite the first four passes for users, though these can be manually ...

Last year, when The New York Times reported that Amazon’s robotics team’s ultimate goal was to automate 75% of the company’s operations, replacing more than half a million human jobs in an attempt to ...

One of the joys of browsing secondhand shops is the possibility of finding old, perhaps restorable or hackable, electronics at low prices. Admittedly, they usually seem to be old flat-screen TVs, ...

The female-skewing psychological thriller — starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried — has already passed up 'Bridesmaids' to become the top-grossing film of Feig's career in its original run. By ...