When you’re plugged into a good virtual reality experience, you might talk about how it “feels real.” That’s apparently not good enough for engineer James Bruton, who built a robot to punch him while ...

The West Japan Rail Company (or JR West) unveiled its Gundam-style heavy equipment robot for carrying out repairs. The robot takes on the appearance of a humanoid upper body mounted on the end of a ...

WTF?! I have reported extensively on ways that developers are trying to make virtual reality more immersive. It's one of my favorite topics. I love technologies that make VR more like real life.

Japanese tech giant Toyota’s Research Institute (TRI) is training robots to fulfill random household tasks by letting humans look through the bots’ eyes via virtual reality. “When teaching a task, a ...

The appeal of virtual reality is the promise of being able to go anywhere—to ancient civilizations or fictional alien worlds—without ever leaving your home. Every day, technology brings this closer ...

The rather excellent stealthy robot-stabbing game Budget Cuts is finally coming to PlayStation VR in May. In collaboration with publisher Perp Games (Moss, Sairento, Doctor Who: The Edge of Time), ...

At the threshold of the autonomous revolution, one fact has remained stubbornly consistent for the last half-century: Controlling robots is a pain. Virtual reality, it turns out, could be the key to ...

Robot boots made for exploring virtual reality (VR) worlds are now coming to market. This marks our latest step toward a Ready Player One-type future. The boots, dubbed Eckto One, aim to allow people ...

Working with robots is becoming more common in the recycling industry, helping automate tasks and making complicated work easier. But training human employees to work with robots can be difficult and ...