On the outskirts of Beijing, young Chinese entrepreneur Cheng Hao sits on an indoor soccer pitch – but this turf isn’t for humans. It’s where engineers working for his start-up, Booster Robotics, ...

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It’s been quite a year for humanoid robots, with all manner of increasingly advanced designs coming to our attention. The selections here focus more on physical movement than AI smarts, with the ...

In the future, a caregiving machine might gently lift an elderly person out of bed in the morning and help them get dressed. A cleaning bot could trundle through a child’s room, picking up scattered ...

What’s keeping them off the street is a challenge robotics researchers have circled for decades. Building robots is easier than making them function in the real world. A robot can repeat a TikTok ...

Serve Robotics Inc. (NASDAQ: SERV) said it has surpassed its 2025 goal by deploying more than 2,000 autonomous delivery robots, creating what it calls the largest sidewalk delivery fleet in the United ...

Imagine a world where your morning coffee is brewed by a robot that remembers your exact preferences, your home is cleaned by a machine with human-like dexterity, and factories are staffed by tireless ...

It'll likely be a while before we have humanoid robots taking over our household chores, but what you can count on sooner is seeing more robots in industrial settings, like factories and warehouses.

AI robots turning on us and taking over the world is something on all of our minds right now. But would it be so bad if the machines went after CEOs first? We’re mulling over the prospect of such ...

The tech industry has become obsessed with the idea of humanoid robots, bipedal androids designed to complete tasks on behalf of their flesh-and-blood counterparts. But as many experts have argued, ...

Ken Goldberg, professor of engineering at UC Berkeley and co-founder of the AI robotics company Ambi Robotics, says home chores are that are easy for humans are often hard for robots to master. Robots ...