I tested a $125,000 humanoid robot. It couldn't read my emotions, but its jokes and sense of humor made it feel surprisingly human.

UBTech UWORLD U1 humanoid robot claims 90% emotion recognition and 88 degrees of freedom for $30,000 - but ethics lag far ...

September 15, 2025 — Virginia Tech researchers received a grant worth more than $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to expand robot theater, an after-school program that helps children ...

A life-like robot has designed a modular studio-home for humans and humanoids to share, and the creator is using it to raise ...

Mental health care can be difficult to access in the U.S. Insurance coverage is spotty and there aren't enough mental health professionals to cover the nation's need, leading to long waits and costly ...

Social by nature, humans interact in multiple ways—through voice, vision and touch. Reflecting these humanistic qualities, robotic capabilities are improving, and as such, human-robot interaction will ...

I've come to an industrial space in a tech-heavy area of San Francisco expecting to see a menacing humanoid robot solider ...