For robots to be predictable and adaptive, they need a priority-based architecture and a new legal model, argues a researcher ...

The latest humanoid robot on the market can purportedly run across a grassy lawn, do cartwheels and even fist-fight – and it costs less than $6,000.

Despite decades of progress, most robots are still programmed for specific, repetitive tasks. They struggle with the unexpected and can't adapt to new situations without painstaking reprogramming. But ...

Hardware You can buy a Chinese made programmable humanoid-robot for under $6,000 USD, but it might be the same one that tried to fight civilians ...

Humanoid robots have become a cultural phenomena. Tech reporter Gerrit De Vynck attended a robot cage fight in San Francisco ...

A new cleaning robot at the The Westin in the Texas Medical Center is helping the hotel fight off germs.

Neurotic personalities are a staple of science fiction. Researchers who study how people react to robot personalities have recently found that neurotic traits in a robot can make them seem more ...