Figure’s website explains why robots like 02 are human shaped: it’s to fit into our world, where doors, tools, stairs and other physical pieces of the environment are shaped for human bodies.

For less than the price of a fully decked-out MacBook Pro, you can buy Unitree's latest humanoid robot called the R1. You only have to shell out $5,900 for a robot that weighs around 55 lbs, stands ...

In a series of demonstration videos, the company showed several robots equipped with the new model, called Gemini Robotics, manipulating items in response to spoken commands: Robot arms fold paper ...

Sophia is a humanoid robot built and designed by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics and activated on Valentine's Day in 2016. The date of activation was no coincidence, you guessed it.

Robots can also be guided manually to perform a particular task a few times, with the model then able to generalise from the resulting data. This process is known as “imitation learning”.