WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They’re emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to ...

China showcased more than 300 humanoid robots at the World AI Conference 2026, demonstrating skills that go far beyond ...

Genesis AI, a global full-stack robotics company, has unveiled GENE-26.5, a robotic brain designed to help general-purpose robots perform complex physical tasks with human-level manipulation. The ...

Seventy-two robots will be deployed in 14 municipal parks in Beijing by the end of July to perform a variety of tasks that ...

The future of surgery just scrubbed in. In a groundbreaking medical first, robots designed to move and function like humans ...

A humanoid robot assisted during a laparoscopic surgery for a gall bladder removal, suggesting that robots may help in some ...

A hot new job has emerged in Los Angeles: robot wrangler to help delivery bots navigate the real world. The robots get stuck in potholes, can’t reach doorbells and are sometimes abused by humans. As ...

Teleoperated humanoid robots completed two live gallbladder surgeries on pigs, marking a first for general-purpose machines ...

Thousands of delivery robots have now been deployed across US cities and college campuses. Videos of delivery robots screwing up have gone viral. The CEOs behind them told Business Insider that most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A trial showed that human-operated robots can successfully complete at least some surgeries. File Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA July 9 ...