The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet.

China has been teaching humanoid robots in its country's decision-making rooms for years. Now they have been taken to a much ...

The concert aimed to showcase how artificial intelligence and robotics can amplify artistic expression rather than replace ...

Designed for public-facing roles, Noetix’s Hobbs W1 combines a “female-styled” lifelike bionic head and interactive display ...

AgiBot, a humanoid robotics company based in Shanghai, has engineered a way for two-armed robots to learn manufacturing tasks through human training and real-world practice on a factory production ...

But the tone and pizzazz of IREX has always been provided by the humanoids. It’s a somehow thrilling spectacle to see robots that look a bit like us, sort of doing things we can do, with the half plea ...

Robots can do a lot these days. Cleaning houses, building machines, helping doctors in surgery, and now, a scientist based out of China is working on a robot that can carry a human fetus to term. The ...

But you can see the market appeal. A robot vacuum cleaner can’t climb stairs to clean an upstairs room. A robot arm that ...

EngineAI Robotics, a Chinese startup, has developed a powerful robot, T800, in just two years that challenges Elon Musk’s ...

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