Picture a robot. What comes to mind? Perhaps a droid from Star Wars or The Jetsons: a machine that can move, speak and perform tasks all by itself. Or maybe your imagination jumps to humanoid robots à ...

Robots have played a starring role in science fiction since Karel Čapek introduced the term in his 1921 play Rossum's Universal Robots. We've been exposed to all types of robots, from C-3PO in the ...

As I was making my normal early morning rounds to various media websites last week, I came across this CNBC headline: "U.S. tech giants are betting big on humanoid robots — but China’s already ahead, ...