A disembodied woman’s head mugged and grimaced, aping the facial expressions of a user on a nearby laptop as visitors to the China Humanoid Robot Developer Conference watched in fascinated unease. The ...

A US firm has released Protoclone, the world's first bipedal, muscuskeletal android. The video of the robot has since gone viral. US-based robotics company Clone has released a video showing its ...

Google is planning a major change to the way it develops new versions of the Android operating system. Since the beginning, large swaths of the software have been developed in public-facing channels, ...

Such a development is in sharp contrast with the US humanoid robot makers' emphasis on software. In the medium and long term, China will leverage its cost advantage to equip humanoid robots with ...

Only after glimpsing over Android's history do we find just how frequently the operating system reinvigorated the user experience by trying out new features. Remember Androidify, an app created by ...

Chimpanzees can “catch” yawns from an android robot imitating human facial expressions, according to a new study that raises more questions about the evolutionary origins of the behaviour. Yawning is ...