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Last year, when The New York Times reported that Amazon's robotics team's ultimate goal was to automate 75% of the company's operations, replacing more than half a million human jobs in an attempt to ...

New research shows that restaurants using humanoid robots are judged more harshly than those using non-humanoid robots because diners infer that human-like machines are intentionally designed to ...

Even with those limitations, orders for the machines are accelerating. Manufacturers such as BYD and Foxconn, both partners ...

The outlook could be bleak or bright depending on how we view the rise of humanoid robots. Think of this quote from a book by Jacob Morgan: “While many futurists and business leaders believe that ...

Humanoid robot companies employ armies of human operators to train their machines by doing tasks like squatting and washing ...

Humanoid robots have enthused public imagination for decades, from Honda’s ASIMO to Tesla’s Optimus and Agility Robotics’ Digit. However, what makes these machines deeply human is what lies under the ...

What just happened? It appears that one thing humanoid robots still can't do better than their human counterparts is long-distance running. This fact was illustrated during a half-marathon in Beijing, ...

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A research team from the Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory and the Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit at Toyohashi University of Technology investigated how the movements of autonomous mobile ...