It’s a bizarre sight: With a short burst of light, a sponge-shaped robot scoots across a tiled surface. Flipped on its back, it repeatedly twitches as if doing sit-ups. By tinkering with the light’s ...

At a technology event in Moscow on November 11, Russian robotics start-up AIDOL's humanoid robot, which is also named AIDOL, made a high-profile appearance that ended abruptly when it stumbled and ...