China unveils its five-year plan for tech dominance — including flying cars, brain-chip implants and humanoid robots.

The last decade has seen vast improvements in humanoid robots, but graduating to widespread use might require going back to the fundamentals. “Not reliably,” Hurst said. “I don’t think it’s totally ...

We have been waiting for decades for robots that can operate more like people—able to perform more than one well-defined task and adapt to change. With the most recent breakthroughs in artificial ...

Just as China’s early electric vehicles were underestimated until scale, supply chains, and iteration ecosystems reshaped global competition, embodied intelligence and humanoid robotics is emerging as ...

A lifelike childbirth simulator called Mama Anne is training future midwives with realistic labor scenarios. The robot mannequin can blink, breathe, talk, and even deliver a baby during simulated ...

Can artificial intelligence offer meaningful relationship advice, or do human therapists still provide something machines cannot replicate? Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for ...

Germany is getting ready to launch the world’s largest robotics research and training center, ...

Scale alone won’t determine the rivalry that hinges on software, partnerships, and Tesla’s path to mass deployment.

Chinese scientists have developed a high-precision three-dimensional (3D) face database and achieved a breakthrough in personalized modeling, which will strongly support more natural human-computer ...

Instead of feeding the AI system with textured images, the researchers designed a curvature-fused graph attention network, or ...

Daniel Chong's nimble comedy about an environmental activist infiltrating the animal kingdom feels like the first Pixar movie ...

We knew that Honor is about to bring its oddball Robot Phone to this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. What we didn't know, however, that the company is also bringing its first-ever ...