The value of humanoid robots in industrial settings has long been questioned, particularly when simpler machines such as ...

Boston Dynamics has released a new explanation of one of Atlas’s most striking behaviors. It’s an eerie, contortion-like way ...

The humanoid Atlas robot performs some strange contortions to get up from a lying position. An engineer explains why.

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Boston Dynamics, the 32-year-old company famed for its amusing or creepy (depending on your interpretation) advanced robots including Atlas (humanoid) and Spot (a dog-like quadruped) featured in viral ...

Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but human psychology and the uncanny valley may stand between them and world ...

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 ...

What makes a humanoid hand so fascinating? Imagine a robotic gripper delicately assembling intricate components on a factory floor or carefully holding fragile medical instruments during surgery.

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 ...

What if robots could not only mimic human actions but also think, adapt, and problem-solve like us? This is no longer the realm of science fiction. With the latest advancements in artificial ...

A dance crew of four-legged robots from Boston Dynamics appeared on “America’s Got Talent” to perform a synchronized routine to Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.” Their performance was impressive enough to ...