China's humanoid robot race got a lot more serious this year. The winning machine didn't just improve on last year — it ...

Watch Unitree's G1 humanoid robot glide on rollerblades and ice skates, pulling off spins and flips while staying perfectly ...

The idea of a robot that does a wide range of household chores, from unloading the dryer to folding laundry to cleaning up a messy table, has long seemed like pure science fiction—perhaps most ...

It's not clear that anyone was asking for a company to build a muscular, sinewy robot or to see a video of it dangling, helpless from a hook, but life is full of surprises and this YouTube video of ...

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...

It was early January 2016, and I had just joined Google X, Alphabet’s secret innovation lab. My job: help figure out what to do with the employees and technology left over from nine robot companies ...

Google said Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 is “our safest robotics model to date,” enabling robots to reason and understand their environments with “unprecedented precision.” That includes reading instruments ...

Advanced robots have long been confined to the realm of science fiction, gracing our screens in the form of now iconic characters like Terminator, R2D2 or Blade Runner's replicants. Science fiction is ...

Hardware costs for humanoid robots are plummeting, but managing a fleet of these autonomous workers will severely test your enterprise IT infrastructure, security, and budget. Humanoid robots have ...