The Desert is a dialogue-free animated short film directed and animated by Michael Dockery, an Australian filmmaker who spent three years building the world from scratch. The film follows a humanoid robot traversing a post-apocalyptic wasteland of red sand,

Can a robot keep up with Serena Williams? Researchers have taught a humanoid robot to play tennis with humans — and it can hold its own. Chinese AI robotic company Galbot designed software to teach a Unitree G1 humanoid robot to play tennis against a ...

When the Next-Gen Iron humanoid was unveiled to the public earlier this month, strutting fluidly down the runway before a gobsmacked audience, it made headlines – but not for the reasons its creators at Xpeng had hoped. The robot moved so uncannily like ...

Robots that mimic humans are set to create a $5 trillion market. But it will take years and a lot of improvements to get there. Humanoid robots are expected to be deployed in factories and households - carrying out both basic and, potentially, advanced tasks.

Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but what we use them for partly depends on answers to very human questions: Do we trust them? Do we like them? According to one prediction, the mass-adoption of droids is only a few years away. Within a generation ...