On top of the robot, Ma’s team fitted an arm with several degrees of freedom produced by another ETH Zürich spinoff called Duatic. This is what would hold and swing a badminton racket.

Bipedal, humanoid robots from companies like Boston Dynamics seemingly advance by the week, but they still can’t match their most audacious sci-fi inspirations. One of the major barriers they ...

Tenniix the AI tennis robot offers personalized practice with speeds up to 75 mph, 5,000 RPM spin and over 1,000 training drills across three skill levels, all controlled by voice or smartphone app.

Last year, a humanoid warehouse robot named Digit set to work handling boxes of Spanx. Digit can lift boxes up to 16 kilograms between trolleys and conveyor belts, taking over some of the heavier ...

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley developing space exploration robots drew inspiration from the common squirrel for their latest cutting-edge bot design Salto, which they say ...

We test dozens of robot vacuums each year at ZDNET, both in our lab and at home. As a result, I'm always writing reviews for different models and updating our choices for the best units you can ...

Google only trained the model on its ALOHA robot, but the company was able to adapt it to different robot types, such as the humanoid Apollo robot from Apptronik and the bi-arm Franka FR3 robot.

Robot vacuums are available at many price points today, and some of them can even mop in addition to vacuum. These are the best robot vacuums you can buy today.

On the June 10 episode of America's Got Talent, Boston Dynamics demonstrated their robots' dancing capabilities, as they performed to Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now," with their "arms" lip-syncing ...

Montgomery County’s Department of Transportation has a 420-pound, 5-foot-4-inch robot charging up in a Silver Spring parking garage as part of a pilot program designed to enhance security.

US robot makers hope to beat China in humanoid race. Tariffs could affect their ambitions For now, humanoids are still a niche but one that invites intense curiosity, in part thanks to popular ...

Peter Brown stripped down his original 'Wild Robot' story for beginning readers, keeping the underlying message about a man-made device that learns how to care for others.