A humanoid robot can relay video and touch sensations to a person wearing haptic feedback gloves and a virtual reality (VR) headset hundreds of kilometres away, offering a way for people to attend ...

As amazing as VR can be, nothing breaks the immersion like putting your hand right through a wall. While some teams are using haptics to simulate the sense of touch, a new study has a clever ...

Researchers have developed a souped-up telepresence robot that responds automatically and in real-time to a remote user's movements and gestures made in virtual reality. Researchers from Cornell and ...

The West Japan Rail Company (or JR West) unveiled its Gundam-style heavy equipment robot for carrying out repairs. The robot takes on the appearance of a humanoid upper body mounted on the end of a ...

Last year at CES French startup Pollen Robotics debuted Reachy, an open-source humanoid robot (the top half of one at least) capable of performing a wide variety of tasks — from traditional R&D to ...

The rather excellent stealthy robot-stabbing game Budget Cuts is finally coming to PlayStation VR in May. In collaboration with publisher Perp Games (Moss, Sairento, Doctor Who: The Edge of Time), ...

Robots are an increasingly common sight in stores, helping customers carry their shopping, keeping track of stock and mapping the layout. Now they’re getting a bit more hands-on thanks to Japanese ...