Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but human psychology and the uncanny valley may stand between them and world ...
Hundreds of studies exploring ways to promote smooth human-robot interaction have been carried out in recent years. In general, scientists agree that as robots begin to appear more humanlike, people ...
Sometimes robots make us feel uneasy because they make us think of death. Now, researchers are putting some real effort behind making our immortal creations feel a bit more alive. Humanlike robots can ...
As we technologically weave our society into a more machine-centric fabric, machines are going to take on more and more human attributes. This means that robots will try to look and interact with us ...
A crowd gathered at a demonstration for Fourier Intelligence, which has started mass production of its GR-1 bipedal robot in what it says is a world first. An exhibitor shakes hands with a humanoid ...
Can cutting open a robot be the best way to win an engineering argument? That slice through synthetic skin, theatrically done at XPENG’s 2025 AI Day in Guangzhou, wasn’t a stunt but a very deliberate ...
Xpeng, a Chinese electric vehicle company, stunned social media with the introduction of its new humanoid robot, Iron. The robot seemed so lifelike that Xpeng eventually cut the robot open live on ...
The biggest name in tech journalism gets hit with the AI grifter treatment on Amazon. The skin can realistically bend, stretch, and wrinkle as the finger curls and extends. Volumetric video footage ...