While it's not ready to join the workforce yet, Atlas, an AI-powered humanoid, is learning how to do human tasks.

Many companies are focused on building robots, or the hardware components to help them move, grip objects, or interact with the world around them. Silicon Valley-based OpenMind is focused under the ...

Humanoid robots spent 2025 straddling a strange line between breakthrough and blooper reel. They poured lattes, posed in ...

OpenMind, the developer of an open artificial intelligence operating system for robotics, and RoboStore LLC, a distributor of advanced intelligent robotics platforms, announced the launch of an ...

AI has accelerated humanoid robot development, but turning virtual prototypes into physical machines remains challenging. Key hurdles such as bipedal balance and grip calibration remain costly to ...

Forget about robots that look like they're straight out of science fiction. ‘Unobtrusive physical AI,’ as the technology is ...

Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot doing training routines, or the latest humanoids from Figure loading a washing machine, and it’s easy to believe the robot revolution is here. From the outside, it ...

If 2025 proved anything, it’s that humanoid robots are no longer content to stand still. This was the year they learned to walk like us, flexed synthetic muscles, clocked factory hours, and stared ...

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, ...

Healthcare systems worldwide are struggling with overcrowded hospitals, physician burnout, and rising surgery delays. Which is why it's always a good thing to see research exploring new solutions ...

Chinese robotics firm Unitree has launched the R1, its most affordable humanoid robot, at a shockingly low asking price of US$5,900. It's hard to fathom that you can now get a walking, command-obeying ...