A university study finds that adding anthropomorphism features to frontline robots — such as humanlike “expressive eyes, emotive voices, and subtle gestures” — increases bystanders’ empathic responses ...

When Elon Musk talks about robotics, he rarely hides the ambition behind the dream. Tesla's Optimus is pitched as an ...

Twenty-five years of the new millennium have passed and we’re still waiting for the futuristic world we were promised: Living ...

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The company says Atlas will be trained to work in its auto plants, adopting the same strategy that Tesla is using to validate ...

Humanoid robots are set to become the next great technological breakthrough, and China is poised to dominate the market.

Scientists in Hong Kong have created an advanced electronic skin that enables robots to sense touch and respond to pain in a ...

“The ChatGPT moment for general robotics is just around the corner,” Nvidia’s Jensen Huang said in January last year. This ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I've been spending a lot of time around ...