DARPA, the bleeding-edge research wing of the United States Department of Defense, has revealed that it will spend millions of dollars on a project called "Avatar." If you've seen the movie of the ...

Two diverse, beloved animation series — at Adult Swim and Nickelodeon — are celebrating 20th anniversaries with new productions. The new production marks the culmination of two decades of Robot ...

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Marcus Wandt has recently achieved a historic feat by remotely controlling a four-legged robot dog named Bert from the International Space Station (ISS). This ...

URBANA, Ill. — For more than three years, a team of graduate students led by Illinois CS professor Kris Hauser has progressed through the $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE. Starting among nearly 80 teams from ...

An Israeli student has become the first person to meld his mind and movements with a robot surrogate, or avatar. Situated inside an fMRI scanner in Israel, Tirosh Shapira has controlled a humanoid ...

This image depicts the real-time transfer of a human’s motion to a robotic avatar, enabling the latter to perform a dexterous task. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

Humans are interacting more than ever with artificial intelligence (AI) – from the development of the first “social robots” (a robot with a physical body programmed to interact and engage with humans) ...

At the MEMS & Sensors Forum in SEMICON Taiwan 2025 held in Taipei on September 9, two leading experts presented complementary visions for the future of robotics. Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro, a renowned ...