I’m not above doing some gig work to make ends meet. In my life, I’ve worked snack food pop-ups in a grocery store, ran the cash register for random merch booths, and even hawked my own plasma at $35 ...

A robotic arm that moves too quickly can feel creepy. One that moves too slowly feels awkward and unhelpful. In a VR study, researchers found that AI-powered prosthetic arms were best accepted when ...

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Some Chicago residents are fighting the deployment of robot delivery couriers. A petition started by a Lincoln Park resident ...

Back in 1997, psychologist Arthur Aron came up with 36 questions that anyone can ask a person they care about to make them fall in love. The oft-used hack is designed to expedite intimacy between two ...

Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a new methodology for a robot to learn how to move its ...

Chinese firm X-Humanoid has launched Tiangong 3.0, a new humanoid robot using its proprietary embodied intelligence platform.

Focus on One Area: Robotics is broad. You could focus on programming first, then move to electronics, or vice versa. Trying ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China-based robotics firm LimX Dynamics has carried out a large-scale demonstration of autonomous humanoid robots operating in ...

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. Gaze is a fundamental aspect of non-verbal communication in human interaction, playing an important role in conveying attention, ...

This image depicts the real-time transfer of a human’s motion to a robotic avatar, enabling the latter to perform a dexterous task. Accelerating progress in robotic automation promises to ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. At CES 2026, we put the robots to the test to see whether they’re ready for real homes — or still stuck in demo ...