China has developed a neuromorphic electronic skin that lets robots feel touch, detect injury, and react to pain with ...

Despite how advanced robots have become, getting them to feel the way humans do is an incredibly complex challenge.

Tech companies are collectively spending billions to turn the age old sci-fi trope of humanoid, general-purpose robots into ...

Humanoid robots are starting to gain something that once belonged firmly in the realm of science fiction: a sense of pain.

Image courtesy by QUE.com Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made substantial strides in recent years, with one of its most ...

Researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and Brown University in Providence (USA) have discovered that people sense the hand of a humanoid robot as part of their ...

Machines even got their own sporting championship in 2025 with the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. Robots from 16 ...

In 2015, a jovial three-foot-tall robot with pool noodles for arms set out on what seemed like a simple mission. Using the kindness of strangers, this machine, called “hitchBOT” would spend months ...

It was early January 2016, and I had just joined Google X, Alphabet’s secret innovation lab. My job: help figure out what to do with the employees and technology left over from nine robot companies ...