Ready for a robot that not only looks human but also acts and reacts like one, expressing emotions like shyness, excitement or friendliness? Disney Research, the innovation powerhouse behind The Walt ...

Researchers have unveiled a bizarre new 10-pound machine that mimics human biology to stretch, shrink, and squeeze through ...

How we relate to humanoid robots matters. In the video below, Cleo Abram demonstrates what it was like to mistreat the Boston Dynamics Atlas robot. She was surprised by her emotional reaction. She ...

BACK IN WITH THE WORK BEING DONE AT CMU. ALL THIS WEEK, WE’VE BEEN TAKING YOU TO THE FUTURE, WHICH IS BEING DEVELOPED RIGHT IN THE HEART OF PITTSBURGH. WE’VE SEEN A DOG, A SNAKE, SOME HANDS, AND WE ...

Researchers at a Chinese university have built a soft, human-inspired robot that can physically grow and shrink on command, mimicking the way human bones elongate during development. The robot, called ...

Switzerland-based Mimic Robotics AG said Monday it has raised $16 million in seed funding from Elaia and Speedinvest to enable robotic hands to adapt to complex, high-precision tasks that conventional ...

Many factory tasks worldwide still depend on human skill because standard robots struggle to manage unpredictable, fine movements. According to Mimic, traditional automation performs efficiently in ...

Tactile robots typically use dense arrays of sensors to detect pressure and texture. Most most robotic sensors today are constrained by the human model of a fingertip.