In 2015, a jovial three-foot-tall robot with pool noodles for arms set out on what seemed like a simple mission. Using the kindness of strangers, this machine, called “hitchBOT” would spend ...

A viral video claiming to show a humanoid robot “attacking” a woman has set social media ablaze, with thousands of users speculating about the rise of sentient machines and the potential ...

In another case, test subjects were friendlier to humanoid-shaped robots after they used a VR headset to “see” through the machine’s perspective.