New footage shows an expressionless iRonCub MK3 robot taking off using four thrusters — two where its arms should be and two in a jetpack on its back.

We can now tell our iCub robot to stop bugging us and go outside to play. That’s because instead of needing a long extension cord for power, the iCub robot now has a battery backpack – tested and ...

In the iCub robot, this can for example be used for the robot's visual perception. This requires a lot of relatively simple operations that must all be performed in parallel.

We first heard about the iCub humanoid robot in 2011, when it was nominated to take part in the Olympic Torch Relay. The latest and greatest version, the iCub 3, was the star of a recently ...

The iCub humanoid robot represents a standardized common open-source platform for research on embodied artificial intelligence (AI). It is available in 36 copies in laboratories across Europe, USA ...

Robots that can make their own decisions have so far been confined to science fiction movies, but "iCub," a child-sized figure with big eyes and a white face, is trying hard to turn fiction into ...

English researchers have used the iCub robot to carry out linguistic experiments as part of the iTalk project. iCub is an open-source hardware project described as a “cognitive humanoid robotic ...

The iCub robot does have a limited capacity to "learn" like a neural network (a type of artificial intelligence, or AI, that mimics the processes of a human brain), ...

We shouldn’t say iCub — the humanoid robot from Italy — is creepy. After all, human-like robots are in their infancy and an early computer or automobile would hardly be indicative of where ...

The iCub robot is used in order to help children to develop skills in perspective-taking, that is to understand the point of view of others. view more . Credit: IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia.

Creepy open source iCub robot shows off its toddler-like abilities. The toddler-like iCub robot is spotted in a new video featuring it crawling in a creepy way.