A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

On Wednesday, Clone Robotics released video footage of its Protoclone humanoid robot, a full-body machine that uses synthetic muscles to create unsettlingly human-like movements. In the video, the ...

Humanoid robots grooved to hip-hop, sparred in martial arts, and even played guitar and drums on Thursday evening as Beijing opened the inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games. The three-day spectacle ...

Robots may be one of the greatest 21st-century inventions, but up until Oct. 28, you couldn’t purchase one to help out with daily household tasks, such as emptying the dishwasher or vacuuming your ...

The Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing — featuring running, kickboxing and soccer — highlighted advancements in robotics. Limitations, too. By Yan Zhuang There’s a very real concern that robots could ...