It looked like a scene cut straight from a sci-fi movie — a humanoid robot starts flailing wildly as two nearby technicians take cover. But this was not fiction. A human-sized robot called a Unitree ...

A shocking incident at a festival in China has raised serious concerns about the safety of artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Humanoid robots promise revolutionary automation, but their complexity, instability and safety gaps may outweigh the appeal of human-shaped machines.

Humanoid robots pose unique safety risks. That's driving a push for new standards before they start sharing our workplaces and homes. Last year, a humanoid warehouse robot named Digit set to work ...