Robot assistants are on the way, but the latest models might need a human teleoperator to take over certain tasks by looking and listening inside your home.

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Chinese New Year celebrations featured advanced AI robots performing traditional arts. Prominent Chinese companies ...

Videos of humanoid robots dancing in sync—often filmed in China’s tech hubs and factory floors—have gone viral for a reason: ...

Since most of us engage with AI via text boxes, we imagine it more as a brain and less as a body. But there’s a good case to be made that AI hardware applications—like smart robots—could end up being ...

Fauna Robotics is launching Sprout as a developer platform for humanoid robots. The robot features 29 degrees of freedom and ...

A child with a new cochlear implant works on auditory rehabilitation exercises at home in Toulouse, France, aided by Pepper, a human-looking robot. In Canada, another child interacts with Pepper, who ...

When soft music is playing in the background, a brief exchange with a robot can evoke unexpected feelings of intimacy. Researchers were surprised to discover how much of a role the background music ...

No, robots aren't taking over the world anytime soon, but they could be the ones doing challenging or dangerous tasks in the future, the team says.

Social by nature, humans interact in multiple ways—through voice, vision and touch. Reflecting these humanistic qualities, robotic capabilities are improving, and as such, human-robot interaction will ...

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Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making bigger promises. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET.