An curved arrow pointing right. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics created a robot that resembles a giant, virtual reality arcade game. However, the scientists claim ...

A combined team of roboticists from MIT and the University of California, San Diego, has developed a new type of remote ...

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IHMC Robotics Lab, in collaboration with Boardwalk Robotics, has unveiled the robot "Nadia". According to the team, their ultimate goal is for the robot to approach more "dangerous tasks ...

A stereo camera with gimbal streaming to a VR headset complete with head tracking seems like a very hackable design. To address this, researches provided a user with a robot-mounted, real-time ...

Now we fret about chatbots. An earlier age worried about automatons, the uncanny humanoid contraptions whose voices could ...

In another case, test subjects were friendlier to humanoid-shaped robots after they used a VR headset to “see” through the machine’s perspective. Other research suggests humans may be more ...