Gibbons are famed for their graceful agility high in the forest canopy. Swinging effortlessly from branch to branch, their bodies spilling through the trees, the small apes seem to defy the basic laws ...

T his year marked the first-ever international sporting event to feature humanoid robots as athletes. These robots, with some help from the humans behind their creation, competed against each other in ...

Hundreds of humanoids from 16 countries stumbled over each other while competing in the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing ...

Atlas, Boston Dynamics’ dancing humanoid, can now use a single model for walking and grasping—a significant step toward general-purpose robot algorithms.

We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving ...

A new study surveyed the behavior of crested gibbons engaging in dance-like movements both in the wild and in captivity, finding only the females dance, and in a few different contexts. When you ...

Boston Dynamics' robotic dog, Spot, is drawing significant attention after delivering a flawless performance on the live ...

Scientists have documented scores of animal species that perform elaborate dance displays for a variety of purposes: from courting cranes to pair-bonding penguins and waggle-dancing honeybees. New ...