Humanoid robot startups are raising massive funding rounds, and the sales pitch is familiar. Human-shaped machines will soon ...

Many leaders of those companies would like to temper those expectations. For all the recent advances in the field, humanoid robots, they say, have been overhyped and face daunting technical challenges ...

It’s been quite a year for humanoid robots, with all manner of increasingly advanced designs coming to our attention. The ...

No basketball. No volleyball, long jump, or steeplechase. Instead, the robot Olympics will have events that reflect how ...

Robots like Digit are a growing pursuit among robotics companies that are trying to bring humanoids into everyday life, and ...

We’ll be going into 2026 with both optimism and skepticism, and we’ll keep doing what we always do: talking to the experts, ...

Robust.AI co-founder Rodney Brooks, a pioneering roboticist and co-creator of the widely selling Roomba robot vacuum, ...

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

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

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet.

As local FIRST Robotics and LEGO League teams prepare for upcoming competitions, a local holiday fundraiser is helping the ...

A couple of local teams of fourth- and fifth-graders are among the 48 that have traveled to Mason, Mich. this weekend for the ...