A Japanese-developed robot that mimics the movements of its human controller is bringing the Hollywood blockbuster Avatar one step closer to reality. You can save this article by registering for ...

Teams looking to compete and develop the world's first, functional avatar must demonstrate that their robot can operate in real-world scenarios. To be eligible, robots will have to be controlled ...

Technology Robot avatar lets people see and feel things remotely through VR A person wearing a VR headset and haptic feedback gloves can control the iCub 3 robot and experience being somewhere ...

The BBC has been given an exclusive demonstration of how the technology of robot avatar 'beaming' works, allowing a kind of 'physical' interaction at a distance.

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to un… ...

The Dawn Avatar Robot Café in Tokyo, Japan is filled full of friendly looking, shiny white robots that whizz around the floor and are controlled by humans from their home Comments Travel Milo ...

Joshua Martinangeli, 7, is too ill to go to school. But the German student can still interact with his teacher and classmates through an avatar robot that sits in class in his place and sends a ...

In it, a robot avatar is standing amongst an enormous Pokemon, Morty from Rick and Morty, a leprechaun and other strange creatures. After a few seconds, the avatar collapses.

Avatars and robots can now be used to help people "visit" remote locations via the internet - but this raises a host of moral and legal questions.