Fauna, a new startup, is betting that humanoid robots will find success as hospitality workers, research assistants, and ...

New research shows that restaurants using humanoid robots are judged more harshly than those using non-humanoid robots because diners infer that human-like machines are intentionally designed to ...

Living with robots could lead to plenty of societal improvements, but they also pose risks to how we socialize and co-exist ...

Many researchers agree that there has been a step change in humanoid capability over the past five years, owing to cheaper ...

Humans are desperate to put the robots to work. The only problem is, the robots don’t “work” to any degree. These humanoid bots are interesting. Some are even cute. Few, if any, are anywhere close to ...

I’ve been teaching robotics at the University of Washington for more than a decade. Every class begins with “robotics news of the week.” For years, humanoid robots appeared only occasionally—usually ...