Humanoid robots pose unique safety risks. That's driving a push for new standards before they start sharing our workplaces and homes. Last year, a humanoid warehouse robot named Digit set to work ...

Think of actuators as the robot’s muscles —the technology that enables humanoids to move. Actuators come in three types: ...

Digit comes equipped with sensors to see the people around it, and a brain designed to keep human colleagues safe. Agility Robotics hopes to gradually integrate its robots into all parts of the human ...

Automotive supplier Schaeffler manufactures parts for Neura Robotics' humanoid robots. They are also used in production and ...

The promise of the humanoid revolution is tantalizing: tireless mechanical workers marching into factories, warehouses, and ...

Walking, talking humanoid robots that were once firmly the domain of science fiction are on their way. In fact, a Morgan Stanley report recently predicted that 13 million human robots will be among us ...

SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son has long predicted a future where robots would outnumber people and take over many jobs from humans. But some of SoftBank’s bets in robotics over the past 10 years, such as ...

Later this year, Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work in a Hyundai factory. The new version of the bot, evolved from the hydraulic Atlas model that’s been ...

We tend to get fixated on realizing certain contraptions from science fiction, no matter how impractical. Flying cars. Jet packs. And now, humanoid robots. Yet few of these promised robots have ...

Nvidia is aiming to give robotics engineers a boost in the form of a new “brain” for their robots. Launched on Monday, the chip giant said that with the new Jetson Thor modules, robots around the ...

When a robotics pioneer who has spent decades building humanoid machines recommends that you stand at least nine feet away from any full-size walking robot, you should probably listen. “My advice to ...