Humanoid robots have quietly crossed a threshold: they are no longer just research prototypes or sci-fi props. They walk, run ...

Dozens of companies are building robots that look like humans. One of them is training a machine to be a butler and will soon test them in homes. Dozens of companies are building robots that look like ...

SALEM, Ore. — In an office park opposite an Amazon warehouse, the robots are at work. A trio of six-foot-tall machines with ostrichlike legs and two jointed arms work in shifts, walking off a charging ...

Solving a technical challenge that has stymied science for 40 years, researchers have built a robot with an onboard computer, sensors and a motor, the whole assembly less than 1 millimeter in size — ...