With the right tech connecting them to their human counterpart, robot avatars could run into fiery buildings for us and much more. “It’s a vision of the future where you don’t have to ...

Japanese airline All Nippon Airways (ANA) is partnering up with XPrize to create a competition it hopes will use this tech to jumpstart development on a real-life general purpose robot avatar.

Does anyone want to buy a humanoid robot for $16,000? The latest product from Unitree hopes that you will: Meet the Unitree G1, a "Humanoid agent AI avatar ... its own from a flat-on-the-floor ...

For a company best known for being the maker of high-end software used in construction projects (NYC's Freedom Tower), industrial design (Tesla ... special effects (Avatar), Autodesk sure has ...

Humans are interacting more than ever with artificial intelligence (AI)—from the development of the first "social robots" (a robot with a physical body programmed to interact and engage with ...

Another day, another Kinect hack, but this one really gives us a taste of a sci-fi-esque future: Kinect can now directly control the limbs of a humanoid robot. Taylor Veltrop is a software ...

But the German student can still interact with his teacher and classmates through an avatar robot that sits in class in his place and sends a blinking signal when he has something to say.

A flat chunk of butterfly-shaped ... “If you’re clever, you can design the material so that its shape is in charge of the robot’s self-organisation rather than a complicated and expensive ...

Scientists in the UK have discovered that by getting robot avatars to “talk with their hands,” we understand them as well as we do our fellow human beings. Avatars have been in existence since ...

Design a robot capable of walking across a flat surface. Although the program delivered original, working examples within literal seconds, the new robots “[look] nothing like any animal that has ...