Freaked-out viewers are hoping the engineers quit while they’re a head. Robots are looking far less robotic as time goes on. Now, a Chinese robotics company is alarming viewers after unveiling the ...

Picture a robot. What comes to mind? Perhaps a droid from Star Wars or The Jetsons: a machine that can move, speak and perform tasks all by itself. Or maybe your imagination jumps to humanoid robots à ...

Life-size dolls. Amusement park automatons. Realistic robots. Why do some of these humanlike forms elicit positive responses, while others seem disturbing and downright creepy? Are humans hard-wired ...