For roughly the same price as a flagship smartphone, you could instead buy an affordable humanoid robot that's meant for consumer and educational use. Noetix Robotics, a Beijing-based startup, revealed its Bumi robot that's priced at nearly 10,000 yuan, or around $1,400.

Forget about ever feeling lonely again with this cute, expressive, and interactive desktop robot. Kid or adult, this is the ultimate toy robot guaranteed to spice up your life. Remember those yellow, irresistible troublemaking minions from the Universal ...

Can scientists teach a robot to dance with grandma? No, that question wasn’t a weird Mad Libs answer, this is the underlying focus of a study by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory, and the Atlanta VA. Using a wheeled robot with human ...

Marc Raibert, founder and chair of Boston Dynamics stands beside one of the company's Atlas robots during an interview and demonstration in Waltham, Massachusetts. AP WALTHAM, Mass. — The man who designed some of the world’s most advanced dynamic ...

A robot that will bring a mix of artificial intelligence and playfulness to young patients at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia met his new friends at a ceremony inside the West Philly medical facility Thursday. NAO, pronounced now, can sing and dance ...

A dancing robot gave a whole new meaning to “doing the robot” when it executed a flawless performance of the running man to the dulcet tones of “Uptown Funk”. On Tuesday, Boston Dynamics debuted a YouTube video of their SpotMini, a four-legged ...

These “humanoid” robots are dancing their way into the future — and freaked-out humans are predicting apocalyptic world domination is surely on the horizon. The latest video from the Boston Dynamics, an often-viral engineering and robotics company ...