A new humanoid robot has stunned audiences with its eerie realism to the point where many refused to believe it was actually a machine.

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The idea of robots working in service and retail roles isn't a new one, but it is an emerging reality. Will it work?

Humanoid robots have glimmered on the tech horizon for half a century, but each new prototype still triggers Masahiro Mori’s “uncanny valley.” When a machine looks almost, but not quite, human, our ...

Proliferating fleets of robots, diffusion of humanoids and the emerging robot class of androids will increase complexities of ...

As a kid, I spent countless hours watching Star Trek reruns, Space: 1999, and Battlestar Galactica. Robots and androids were as much a part of those fictional universes as warp drives and laser ...

Yesterday, an 8-inch toy robot stuck to a pillar near Coors Field triggered hours of havoc downtown, culminating in the Denver bomb squad detonating the innocuous figurine in a hullabaloo of wondrous ...

In real life, robots are pretty simple. They are just, like, an arm putting cars together or what have you. In movies and TV, though, robots have long been intelligent. They’ve had personalities. They ...