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The Columbia University researchers achieved the feat by allowing their robot, EMO, to study itself in a mirror. It learned how its flexible face and silicone lips would move in response to the ...

Computer Science majors Owen McGann ’26 and Yousef Sengal ’27 spent last summer conducting research on Human-Robot ...

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Fauna, a new startup, is betting that humanoid robots will find success as hospitality workers, research assistants, and entertainers.

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The robot utilises ultra-lightweight electrodes to respond rapidly to surrounding electric fields, which trigger stretching, ...

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China’s Unitree G1 humanoid robot has successfully completed an extreme cold test in Xinjiang, walking through deep snow at ...

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MedOS, which the Stanford-Princeton AI Coscientist Team is building from data from multiple sources, is designed to ...