Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot Atlas was one of the names missing out in the inaugural Robot Olympics in China last week. It was absent – but for a reason. Engineers at the Massachusetts-based ...

In a sign of how a future might look in which robots and humans move about in our world, a U.S. company said it would upgrade its humanoid robot with a new model that was designed to have more ...

The development of advanced robots like Atlas continues to illustrate “Moravec’s Paradox,” a concept highlighting the surprising difficulty robots face with tasks humans find simple, such as motor ...

Boston Dynamics has unveiled a major update to its humanoid robot Atlas, this time focusing on its hands. Over 12 years since the robot was first introduced, the Massachusetts-based company has made ...

Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot may have skipped the inaugural “robot Olympics” in China last week, but that doesn’t mean the engineers behind the machine have been sitting around watching the world ...

Later this year, Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work in a Hyundai factory. The new version of the bot, evolved from the hydraulic Atlas model that’s been ...

Aug. 20 (UPI) --A humanoid robot can now perform complex tasks with a large behavior model without needing hand programming for each task. Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute announced this ...

Atlas, the humanoid robot famous for its parkour and dance routines, has recently begun demonstrating something altogether more subtle but also a lot more significant: It has learned to both walk and ...

Thanks to the many ongoing projects in this field, we're used by now to seeing humanoid robots performing all sorts of impressive, almost human-like tasks and movements. But it's not until you see one ...