A Chinese robotics startup is pushing the boundaries of lifelike machines with a new humanoid robot designed to look and feel almost human. Shanghai-based DroidUp recently unveiled its latest creation, Moya, a “fully biometric” robot built to mimic ...

Before the record came a face plant. A minor miscalculation by a runner led to an involuntary amputation ahead of Sunday's Beijing half marathon.

Engineers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, also known as KAIST, built a humanoid that runs, jumps and even moonwalks with smooth control. In a recent field test, the robot sprinted across a soccer field, kicked a ball toward the goal ...

Social by nature, humans interact in multiple ways—through voice, vision and touch. Reflecting these humanistic qualities, robotic capabilities are improving, and as such, human-robot interaction will feature more complex multimodal functions. However ...