There's an app for everything. And everything has an App Store. Including, now, humanoid robots, courtesy of Unitree.

Building a robot that’s both humanlike and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction. While the latest artificial intelligence craze has sparked another wave of ...

In what may be the birth of cheap, easy-to-make robots, researchers have created complex machines that transform themselves from little more than a sheet of paper and plastic into walking automatons.

Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day. But ...

In the fiercely competitive global robotics industry, design has evolved beyond simple biomimicry. It now deeply integrates ...

As physical distancing guidelines remain in effect because of the COVID-19 pandemic, people are increasingly enlisting robots to help close the gap. In central England, the town of Milton Keynes has a ...

SoftBank reckons the combination of AI and multi-access edge computing (MEC) can usher in a future of office workers and robots working together.

In the 2012 film “Robot and Frank”, the protagonist, a retired cat burglar named Frank, is suffering the early symptoms of dementia. Concerned and guilty, his son buys him a “home robot” that can talk ...

A transformative experience working with very sick children changed Paul Bucci’s mind about how robots used in human therapy should be designed. Bucci, a doctoral student in UBC’s department of ...

WATCH: A team of UBC engineering physics students is putting their projects to the test in a classroom obstacle race involving robots and stuffed animals in need of a rescue. Elaine Yong explains. In ...

Pepper isn’t your average seniors’ residence care worker. That was immediately evident when the diminutive robot arrived at the Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care in Scarborough, Ont. to lead weekly ...