For decades, the most heated arguments in action sports have happened long after the run is over. Was Travis Pastrana’s 2006 double backflip really not a ...

Like octopuses squeezing through a tiny sea cave, metatruss robots can adapt to demanding environments by changing their shape. These mighty morphing robots are made of trusses composed of hundreds of ...

DoorDash Inc., the largest food-delivery app in the U.S., unveiled a delivery robot and a smart scale for restaurants, ...

SpaceX’s Elon Musk says he will rocket Optimus bots on the first Starships sent to Mars, but a leading robotics scholar ...

Scientists have developed HydroSpread, a novel technique for building soft robots on water, with wide-ranging possibilities ...

After four years of hype, Optimus shows some progress, yet the humanoid struggles to prove it's worth beyond staged demos.

Elon Musk has repeatedly promised that Tesla’s humanoid robot revolution is just around the corner. So far, however, his Optimus prototypes seem to spend most of their time mixing cocktails and ...

Google's humanoids are now capable of carrying out complex, multi-step tasks using the newly released Gemini 1.5 model family ...

University of Virginia researcher Baoxing Xu’s research group introduces HydroSpread, an innovative fabrication method that ...

Roboticist Karen Liu combines machine learning and animation to teach robots to move and respond more like humans.

Imagine tiny robots zipping across the surface of a lake to check water quality or searching for people in flooded areas. This technology is moving closer to reality thanks to work by researchers at ...

The rivalry could be one for the ages—right up there with the feud between Bill Gates and the late Steve Jobs.