A creepy robot — featuring arms, legs and two eyes, but no other facial features — has stepped up alongside actual workers in warehouses for the first time to lift heavy boxes and containers. The ...

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The rise of humanoid robots didn’t happen overnight, but a kind of perfect storm has accelerated the phenomenon over the past year and change. The foundation, of course, is decades of research.

Humanoid robots have caught the public imagination for over 100 years. Ever since the word ‘robot’ was coined into the English language, in fact, via Czech playwright Karel Čapek’s 1920 drama, R.U.R ...

Robots resembling humans that live and work among us have long been seen in science fiction with characters such as C-3PO in "Star Wars" or Rosie in "The Jetsons." But human-sized robots are already a ...

Austin, Texas (CNN) — Humanoids that handle household chores or build habitats on the lunar surface may sound like something from science fiction. But the team at Austin-based robotics startup ...