With the age of humanoids upon us, Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted that his robots will curb crime, eliminate poverty and do ...

Robot skin that senses touch and pain — and triggers instant reflexes — makes robots more like humans. It probably also makes ...

Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but what we use them for partly depends on answers to very human questions: Do we trust them? Do we like them? According to one prediction, the mass-adoption ...

The humanoid robot has previously been shown playing table tennis, shooting basketballs, and performing martial arts routines. This incident, however, highlights one of the risks of close-range ...

Robots are just about everywhere these days: circling the grocery store, cleaning the floor at the airport, making deliveries. Not to mention the robots on the assembly lines in factories. But how far ...

Having nailed the laundry — including loading the washer and later folding everything up — the Figure 02 humanoid robot is now taking on the task of loading the dishwasher. And it seems to have nailed ...

Chinese EV company XPENG unveiled its next-gen humanoid robot IRON during its AI Day event in Guangzhou, having it walk onto the stage in a stilted yet strangely lifelike saunter. The reveal swiftly ...

Humanoid robots have come on leaps and bounds in the last couple of years, but the grand promises of factories filled with bipedal bots performing meaningful tasks, or robotic home helpers doing ...

The price tag is orders of magnitude cheaper than most robots in its class, which can run into tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now China’s Unitree Robotics, best known for its nimble ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I explore humans, technologies, and what’s next. Dec 01, 2025, 01:14pm EST As factories finalize 2026 budgets, a costly choice ...