Earlier this year, a robot completed a half-marathon in Beijing in just under 2 hours and 40 minutes. That's slower than the human winner, who clocked in at just over an hour—but it's still a ...

Boston Dynamics is at it again, wowing us with some seriously cool robotic moves. Their latest video of Atlas, their bipedal robot, has blown up online with its mind-blowing human-like movements, ...

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 ...

Elon Musk shared a new video of Tesla's Optimus robot running for the first time as he doubles down on claims that the humanoid could transform the economy and even "eliminate poverty," despite ...

Robotics company Boston Dynamics has released a new video of its humanoid robot Atlas – now performing tasks with zero human intervention. In the video released by the futuristic lab – the robot can ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) James Pikul, University of Wisconsin-Madison (THE CONVERSATION) Earlier this year, a ...