A robotics startup cofounder shares why most robots likely won't need legs

Diligent Robotics co-founder Vivian Chu said her "minimum viable humanoid" robots are already helping hospital staff save ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN

This May Be the Creepiest Humanoid Robot Ever Built…and the Most Advanced, Too

In a lab tucked away in Poland, a group of engineers is quietly redefining what it means to build a robot. Not with circuits ...
abc7NY

Chinese robots ran against humans in the world's first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile

HONG KONG -- If the idea of robots taking on humans in a road race conjures dystopian images of android athletic supremacy, then fear not, for now at least. More than 20 two-legged robots competed in ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

Can Optimus make America win the humanoid robot race? Here’s the verdict

After four years of hype, Optimus shows some progress, yet the humanoid struggles to prove it's worth beyond staged demos.
TechSpot

Humanoid robots struggle in first humans vs. robots half-marathon

What just happened? It appears that one thing humanoid robots still can't do better than their human counterparts is long-distance running. This fact was illustrated during a half-marathon in Beijing, ...

A play about the revolt of human workers — not machines — gave us the word 'robot'

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...