David Hanson with his first Albert Einstein robot, which was recently sold to a Korean research institute. A new Einstein robot from Hanson Robotics will be featured in an upcoming exhibit at the ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -Fancy a robot chess partner to test your moves on? Perhaps a robotic pet dog? Or a life-sized replica of physicist Albert Einstein that could teach you his theories on relativity?

Beijing seems like it wants to continue with the legacy of Albert Einstein, but with a twist. Their blinking eyes have a strangely endearing quality. They could initially be mistaken for wax figures ...

Europe's newest robot cargo ship to haul supplies to the International Space Station will be named after the 20th century's greatest scientist: Albert Einstein. The unmanned spacecraft, formally known ...

Earlier this year we saw the Einstein robot that is being developed to facilitate human facial emotions in robots. [David Hanson], the man in charge of this project, has given a TED talk on his work ...

With the opening of this new store in Beijing, China is taking a strategic step toward bringing robotics technology closer to the population’s daily lives. Inspired by the growing demand for ...

WASHINGTON -- David Hanson's robots can creep people out. Their heads are so lifelike, their skin so textured and realistic, that Candy Sidner, a competing roboticist, called his Albert Einstein robot ...

David Hanson, the roboticist who brought us the creepy cybernetic substitute son Zeno, is now offering an empathetic smiling Einstein bot for our general horrification. Seriously, the guy is obviously ...

Using a geometric framework they call artificial spacetimes, the team showed that you can guide microrobots by shaping light ...

BEIJING — Fancy a robot chess partner to test your moves on? Perhaps a robotic pet dog? Or a life-sized replica of physicist Albert Einstein that could teach you his theories on relativity? Those are ...