Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed ...

Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...

When it comes to ultra-humanlike Westworld-style robots, one of their most defining features are lips that move in perfect ...

Scientists have built microscopic, light-powered robots that can think, swim, and operate independently at the scale of ...

The achievement addresses one of the biggest obstacles in humanoid design: facial motion that looks off. While robotics has ...

Almost half of our attention during face-to-face conversation focuses on lip motion. Yet, robots still struggle to move their ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

Many researchers agree that there has been a step change in humanoid capability over the past five years, owing to cheaper ...

“The Melville boom,” the critic Van Wyck Brooks wrote in 1921, is “only a question of time.” By the 1930s the prediction had been borne out; after decades of neglect, “Moby-Dick” (1851) was widely ...

Soft actuation remains the key bottleneck in creating soft robots with flexible deformation and agile locomotion similar to nature creatures. Despite extensive efforts, it remains performance ...

It's hard not to think of 'T800' without "The Terminator" and "Skynet" coming to mind. However, EngineAI has created a robot with that exact name. This isn’t Hollywood science fiction; it’s an ...

The International Space Station's Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (Dextre) was employed to install the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation instrument outside the International Space ...