By using a projector to beam the 3D image of a face onto the back of a plastic mask, and a PC to control voice and expressions, researchers have succeeded in creating Mask-bot, a startlingly human ...

Still, as Uncle Bot shows, the Unitree G1 is capable of some surprisingly realistic humanoid motion. It comes equipped with ...

A humanoid robot dressed like your average middle-aged man has become an overnight celebrity in China. Nicknamed “Uncle Bot” ...

The robot is equipped with multimodal artificial intelligence, including voice and image recognition, and has 26 joints to ...

Robot is 3D-printed upside-down in one piece, then walks out of the printer By Ben Coxworth May 28, 2025 The 67-mm-long (2.6-in) demonstrator robot, with a paper clip for scale ...

It also means modeling Scout’s physical behavior. Like all delivery robots, this is a machine that has to work alongside humans, navigating in a way that doesn’t irritate or endanger pedestrians.

Timing, pressure and the order in which the chambers are inflated all play into how the bot walks and had to be precisely calculated. The robot can walk at speeds of up to 20 mm (.8 in) per second.

The seven-employee company has spent over a decade assembling what it calls the largest database of “human digital doubles” on the web, meaning 3D image files scanned from actual human models.