University of California, Berkeley, has unveiled a new open-source, budget-friendly and customizable humanoid robot ...

our minds usually race to the image of a humanoid machine. These robots are a fixture in pop culture, and often held up as some sort of ideal form. Yet, one might ask, why the fixation?

I have been invited to see the G1, a humanoid robot built by Chinese firm ... Why would you want the added expense of a very complex form factor... when you could just put it on a mobile base?" ...