From soft actuators that mimic real muscle to DNA drives that can store petabytes in a sugar cube, humanity is engineering ...

Despite being the biggest electric-vehicle market in the world, China might decide it’s had enough of Tesla. In this episode ...

Robots are designed with a specific purpose. They are complex machines, performing tasks that make life easier. A computer ...

The 'bots are among us, including delivery drones, autonomous vehicles and service droids.

who hypothesized that there is an “uncanny valley” — a nonlinear representation of the relationship between robots’ human resemblance and likability. (We like humanoid objects up to a ...

Dozens of robots took to Beijing's E-Town to take part in a half-marathon alongside human racers, albeit separated on another ...

Seeing human-like robots, dolls, and AI-generated faces can trigger eerie, put-off feelings towards the figure, a phenomenon known as the uncanny valley. Though these figures look almost human, there ...

Should robots look like human beings at all? Or are we venturing into unnecessary territory, chasing familiarity at the expense of practicality? Here in ...