A humanoid robot's seemingly violent outburst at a Chinese factory has gone viral, igniting fears about the dangers of automation spiralling out of control. Video footage shows a machine seemingly ...

Digit is a humanoid robot that can perform various tasks, such as carrying boxes, opening doors, and climbing stairs. Digit is not just a machine but, as the company claims, a robotic co-worker that ...

A humanoid robot shakes hands with a staff member at an intelligent equipment company in Wuhu, Anhui province, on July 3. ZHANG CHENG/XINHUA CHENGDU — At an auto parts factory in the southwestern ...

A humanoid robot went haywire in a Chinese factory, alarming viewers and fueling concerns about the future of robotics and AI. In what looked like a scene straight out of a dystopian sci-fi film, a ...

If you’re not crazy about the thought of robots taking all the jobs, then you should hold an Elon Musk-level of obsessive adoration for Danish roboticist Esben Østergaard. The co-founder and CTO of ...

Robots have been a constant presence on factory floors for so long nobody really cares how they got there anymore. But all of the robots currently in use are simple mechanical arms or other shapeless ...

Later this year, Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work in a Hyundai factory. The new version of the bot, evolved from the hydraulic Atlas model that’s been ...

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The report sites recent analysis by U.K. consultancy firm IDTechEx that predicts that some 1.6 million humanoid robots could be working in the automotive factory sector by 2035. U.S. Bureau of Labor ...