A UMBC study reveals that classical Indian dance mudras provide robots with more versatile motion patterns than natural human ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have extracted the building blocks of precise hand ...

The first Beijing Technology and Art Week got underway in the iconic 798 Art District on Friday, with a thrilling mix of art ...

Chinese Tesla rival Xpeng said it plans to start mass production of its robot, called Iron, next year. The EV startup's CEO said Xpeng built Iron to be so "human-like" that people are comfortable ...

Companies building humanoid robots are all the rage these days. Elon Musk is promising to sell enough motion-capture-trained Optimus bots to make up the vast majority of Tesla's value, while a company ...

Since Boston Dynamic first teased its BigDog robot in 2004, four-legged hound automatons have exploded in popularity. There are now dozens of robot dogs in development, ranging from military and ...

For roughly the same price as a flagship smartphone, you could instead buy an affordable humanoid robot that's meant for consumer and educational use. Noetix Robotics, a Beijing-based startup, ...

HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese humanoid robot maker AgiBot plans to launch an initial public offering in Hong Kong next year, eyeing a valuation of HK$40 billion to HK$50 billion ($5.14 billion ...

Selina Xu leads China and AI research in the office of former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt. Helen Zhang is deputy chief of staff and director of research and projects there. Schmidt invests in ...

On Sept. 27 and 28, Harvard’s Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and MIT Heritage Arts of South Asia (MITHAS) hosted Intersections, a two-day conference centered on traditional Indian ...

In the humanoid robot competition, the US and China stand out as the two leading forces. Jonathan Hurst, co-founder of US-based humanoid robotics startup Agility Robotics, recently shared his views on ...

China has embarked on a campaign to use more robots in its factories, transforming its manufacturing industries and becoming the dominant maker. By Meaghan Tobin and Keith Bradsher Meaghan Tobin ...