There are a handful of companies out there building their own humanoid robots, but the face is such a tricky feature, that many ignore it altogether.

Watch out for the robo-bop. Appalling footage shows the moment that a robot accidentally slapped a child in the face during a dance demonstration gone awry. The “hit” routine went down on March 21 in Shaanxi province,

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China’s humanoid robotics industry is entering a new phase, not just focused on mobility

This machine rages against you. The rise of the machines could be closer than you think. A humanoid bot had to be “bounced” from a California restaurant after smashing tableware during a dance routine gone awry,

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

Researchers are exploring whether videos, including those from YouTube, can help train robots to perform everyday household tasks.

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train surgical robots eliminates the need to program robots ...