Humanoid robots have been promised for decades, but most still look and move like machines. Ameca changes that, with a face and body language so nuanced that people instinctively treat it less like a ...

Fauna Robotics’ Sprout encourages human interactions with an expressive face and a soft foam body.

The robotics revolution isn’t coming; it has already started. Over the past year, I travelled to China, Japan and Korea to see some of the world’s most advanced humanoid and adaptive robotics firms.