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Facial recognition software mistakenly registered his eyes as being closed.

Protect your shoulders, back, and knees with this three-part MAX system.

A standards document offers guidelines on robot-human relationships and more.

The side effects of making machines more human.

An MIT design allows phone components to automatically snap together in a centrifuge.

Smart agents can improve customer service and increase productivity.

These bots have moves you've never seen.

Be careful what you say, because the Big-I is watching. Always.

Japan is taking it up a notch on the creepiness scale as researchers unveil the new human-like Alter.

Down a side street bracketed by massage parlors and cheap hotels in this city on the banks of the Yangtze River, a humanoid food service robot trundles around the corner of a table in a cafe, red eyes flashing in tune with synthesized classical music.

A humanoid robot in Russia made a break for it, but people are wondering if it's all a hoax and not just human error.

The rapid adoption of helpful tech like the smartphone has elevated the idea of personal-assistant robots from science fiction to impending reality.

Industrial robots don't always get as much attention as their humanoid counterparts, but they are changing the life of humans just as much, if not more.

It's the first product from Starship Technologies, the robotics startup founded by the creators of Skype.

The futurist sat down with Neil deGrasse Tyson to discuss what it means to think and create in a near-future where knowledge and expertise are downloadable.

Drones are so 2015.

RoBoHoN can dance and talk with people in addition to performing smartphone functions like texting and browsing the Internet.

Start your engines. A company called MegaBots is raising money on Kickstarter to prepare its 12,000-pound robot for a fight with a robot in Japan.

The newest product from iRobot, makers of the Roomba, will be a lawn mower that wirelessly connects with signal beacons.

Clearpath Robotics says its robots are fundamentally different from the ones Amazon uses.

McKinsey's in-house think tank compiled a cheat sheet for the future of tech.