Loomia created its tactile sensing developer kit after surveying 100 engineers as part of the NSF I-Corps program.

Recently a Chinese humanoid robot managed to bump up the maximum running speed to 3.6 m/s (12.96 km/h), during a match between two of Robot Era’s STAR1 humanoid robots in the Gobi desert.

Ms. Friedman says the role of humanoid robots in the workplace would very much depend on the type of work. But there’s also the consideration of whether we even need these robots.

As the human birth rate declines, humanoid robots could take up the slack and fill jobs that are vacant. But do we really need them? Building a robot that’s both human-like and useful is a ...