F or decades, humanoid robots lived in science fiction and in high-tech labs. That’s changing. Engineers and companies across the world are now building human-shaped machines that walk, grasp, and collaborate well enough to start showing up in factories and warehouses, and potentially in daily life.

Amazon unveiled its latest warehouse robot on Wednesday, dubbed Vulcan, the company’s first with a sense of touch to help it manipulate all the shapes and sizes of different items. Designed and manufactured at Amazon’s robotics operations outside ...

There's a new warehouse robot at Amazon that has a sense of touch, allowing it to handle a job previously only done by humans. Amazon unveiled the robot, called Vulcan, Wednesday at an event in Germany. CNBC got an exclusive first look at Vulcan in April ...