Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein,” 1818 ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible warp-drive designs and detection methods.

Easy: He uses a warp drive, a nifty little propulsion trick that allows the crew to exceed the speed of light by warping ...

Meet Phantom MK1: an imposing humanoid robot designed to transform battlefields, the moon and even Mars—and it may already be taking jobs near you. The 5-foot-9, 176-pound steel and plastic android ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. While Elon Musk plans a Tesla bot factory in Silicon Valley, Chinese companies like Unitree Robotics are already ...

A humanoid robot has strolled into the record books after completing the longest-ever walk by such a machine. Built by Chinese robotics firm AgiBot, the A2’s record-breaking trek covered 106.3 ...

The humanoid robot sector has come on leaps and bounds this year, with new companies joining the race to create an advanced robot for the workplace, and even the home. The latest entrant in the ...

"What is truly frightening is not to fall, but not to get back up," the company behind the robot wrote in a statement MAXIM SHIPENKOV/EPA/Shutterstock A humanoid ...

Companies building humanoid robots are all the rage these days. Elon Musk is promising to sell enough motion-capture-trained Optimus bots to make up the vast majority of Tesla's value, while a company ...

Russia unveiled a humanoid robot, dubbed AIdol, during a flashy showcase in Moscow — only for it to fall on its face, both figuratively and literally. Footage of the event, which went viral this week, ...