A new study from University of California, Merced, and Pennsylvania State University, reported by news site The Debrief, boils down into a single word: trust. We just trust human-shaped robots much ...

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Munich-based Agile Robots has unveiled its first-ever humanoid robot dubbed Agile ONE. Announced on November 19, it is built to handle the complexity of the factory floor. The five-fingered humanoid ...

A new fast-food establishment, BurgerBot, is making waves in the restaurant industry by employing robots instead of humans to prepare meals. The automated restaurant features robots that handle the ...

Another day, another humanoid robot breakthrough. While the U.S. and China have a growing number of firms developing cutting-edge humanoid robots — Boston Dynamics, Figure, Unitree, and EngineAI among ...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have trained a human-like robot named Emo to lip-sync speech and songs by studying online videos, showing how machines can now learn complex human behaviour simply ...