Nothing conveys our sci-fi future quite like the humanoid robot. Bouyed by AI, robot companies are now commanding eye-popping funding rounds. These bots are quietly becoming fixtures in factories and ...

California startups are building robots to help with fold laundry and other tedious tasks as the race to dominate artificial intelligence intensifies against countries such as China.

On January 9, 2007, at the Macworld convention, Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone. Later, in June the same year, it was released — and the world would never be the same again. Before that moment, ...

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A few short months ago, almost every robot made by the hundreds of companies working on humanoid robots could charitably be described as slow, topping out at around three mph. Walking was on the edge ...

Behind a nondescript metal door in the Mission District, marked only with the symbol “π,” a new robotics startup is pushing toward one of Silicon Valley’s most ambitious goals: giving machines the ...

Recent demonstrations and lawsuits over the strength of AI humanoid robots raise essential questions about safety standards.

There's an app for everything. And everything has an App Store. Including, now, humanoid robots, courtesy of Unitree.

From expressive robot faces to factory deployments, these seven stories shaped how 2025 will be remembered in humanoid ...

Foundation plans to build 50,000 Phantom humanoid robots for factories and the US military, blurring the line between industrial automation and warfare.

The world of robotics is at an inflection point right now and China's AI robots are shocking the world with their humanoid characteristics. On one hand, we have robots fumbling at marathons and ...

It’s one small step for man — and one giant, badass layup for robot kind. Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have programmed a Unitree G1 humanoid robot to play ...