If you've ever wished you could outsource tasks like laundry, dishes, or assembling an IKEA bookshelf — well, Elon Musk ...

Chinese Shenzhen-based humanoid robot maker UBTech announced on Wednesday (January 15) a new partnership with Apple's Chinese manufacturing partner, Foxconn, to use its robots to help make iPhones.

UBTech Robotics says it plans to expand its assembly of humanoid robots 10-fold next year to as many as 5,000 units and ...

Assembling furniture can be a grueling task. Often we’re left surrounded by screws, parts that appear to belong nowhere, and a set of directions we’re not thrilled about deciphering. Wouldn’t it be ...

In the 1980s when micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) were first created, computer engineers were excited by the idea ...

Putting together Ikea furniture is a cruel test of mettle that most of us must brave sooner or later, but science has (finally) done something worthwhile by creating an Ikea-furniture-assembling robot ...

A headless humanoid robot clambers noisily through an obstacle course with the grim, unfeeling purpose of a terminator. Luckily, it's just the latest video celebrating the official start of a U.S.

Harvard and MIT engineers, showing a reckless disregard for the robocalypse, have created origami robots that can self-assemble themselves -- from a flat piece of paper and polystyrene -- and walk ...

Robots and humans assembled their brains and artificial intelligence (AI) for Moon exploration at the ESA-ESRIC Space Resources Challenge. A team proved that when it comes to surveying uncharted ...

Pobeda, a Russian airline, became the first airline in the world to deploy a humanoid robot as a flight attendant on a ...