But the closest we’ve come to bringing the fantasy to life — in real life — is by building robots. Until recently, this strategy hasn’t produced strongly convincing results.

Researchers at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. developed small robots called "Pipebots" that can travel inside water ...

Researchers from Tokyo created artificial self-healing human skin for robots to give them a more human-like appearance. Click to Skip Ad ... the robot is treated with water-vapor plasma, ...

New AI Startup Giving Robots Virtual Heart Rate, Body Temperature, Sweating Response So They Can Better Emulate Human Emotions Like Fear and Anxiety. Story by Noor Al-Sibai • 2d.

June 12 (UPI) --Researchers have developed a robotic skin that can give robots a similar feeling to human touch.Researchers from the University of Cambridge and University College London have ...

Meta unveils three tools and benchmarks to enhance robot touch perception, dexterity, and human-robot collaboration in real-world settings. Skip to main content Events Video Special Issues Jobs ...

Giving these robots human-like reactions will also produce data that can be used to better train AI models. These robots will show expression through kinetic movements, Warner told TechCrunch.

If a robot is handing a car part to a human, it should probably know if it’s ripping hot. Figure is already testing its humanoid robots in BMW’s South Carolina manufacturing facilit y.

N stands for Newtons, which is the standard unit of force. 10N means the robot's fingers can exert a force of up to 10 Newtons. This is equivalent to about 2.25 pounds-force, indicating the ...

Robot smiles with living skin. That's not creepy at all If humanoid robots make you a bit queasy — would it help if they had fleshy faces that can smile at you?

As detailed in a study published on June 25 in Cell Reports Physical Science, engineers at the University of Tokyo have developed a method to adhere bioengineered skin grown from human cells onto ...

Engineers in Japan are trying to get robots to imitate that particularly human expression — the smile. They have created a face mask from human skin cells and attached it to robots with a novel ...