Seoul, South Korea — An industrial robot crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea, police said Thursday, as they investigate whether the machine was unsafe or had ...

A robot with a Labubu doll practises before the opening ceremony. AFP via Getty Images ...

BEIJING — Humanoid robots hip-hop danced, performed martial arts and played keyboard, guitar and drums at the opening ceremony of the first World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Thursday evening.

A robot that squirms its way into a person’s windpipe sounds like it’s straight out of a horror movie, but it could save lives by opening the airways of those who have been critically injured 1. Even ...