Several firms including Tesla are vying to build humanoid robots. But widespread adoption faces hurdles including safety ...

Toyota’s new robot can’t do much but chatter in a high-pitched voice. The 39,800-yen ($515), 10-centimetre-tall, doll-like Kirobo Mini – whose name comes from “kibo,” or “hope,” and “robot” – ...

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 ...

Brian Machado originally built his robot, the Bracket Bot, to prank fellow students on campus at the University of Waterloo — he never imagined it could turn into a business. "I wanted to make 10 or ...

TL;DR: Engineers at UC Berkeley developed the world's smallest wireless flying robot, less than 1cm in diameter and weighing 21mg. Powered and controlled by an external magnetic field, it can hover, ...

Swarm Intelligence, inspired by collective behaviors in nature, is now being applied to robotics, enabling multiple humanoid robots to collaborate seamlessly on complex tasks. UBTech's Walker S1 ...

Massachusetts-based logistics robot startup XYZ Robotics has raised a Series A+ round of $17 million, led by Source Code Capital, Gaorong Capital and Morningside Capital. XYZ, which develops picking ...

Why buy something new when you can make it yourself? That's the idea behind maker culture, and its the focus of huge local event coming to Waterloo Region in the fall, an event that will include ...