"Imagine the robot as Luca's avatar on Earth, providing him with both vision and touch," said lead researcher Kjetil Wormnes when the first experiment was conducted in 2019 (via ESA).

Humanoid robots have made a showing in laboratory and factory settings. Fourier debuted its GR-2 line of humanoid robots in September. Figure's O2 humanoid robot has been deployed by BMW.

Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois have demonstrated the world's smallest remote-controlled walking robot, at just half a millimeter wide. Such tiny machines can bend, twist, crawl ...