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We've reported on robots that recognize human gestures and a robotic exohand that gives a human hand superhuman strength. Researchers have taken these abilities a few steps further using functional ...

Avatar Robotics has raised $6.5 million in Seed funding to scale its humanoid robotics platform for industrial labor, targeting persistent worker shortages across warehousing, logistics, and ...

Mayor Tetsuya Sakamura speaks through an avatar robot with a municipal official in a remote location, at Shimotsuke City Hall in Tochigi Prefecture on July 29, 2026. (Mainichi/Manami Matsuzawa) ...

DARPA, the bleeding-edge research wing of the United States Department of Defense, has revealed that it will spend millions of dollars on a project called "Avatar." If you've seen the movie of the ...

SHIMOTSUKE, Tochigi -- The municipal government in this eastern Japan city will introduce avatar robots as part of a new support program for children refusing to go to school or experiencing social ...