How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out ...

Backflips, sparring and breakdance: China’s humanoid robots are already intimidating. The Asian country showcased the rapid technological advances they are making in human-like bots at the annual ...

AI’s concealed labor has repeatedly led us to overestimate the technology. Humanoid robots are entering a similar phase. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI.

For decades, humanoid robots have lived behind safety cages in factories or deep inside research labs. Fauna Robotics, a New York-based robotics startup, says that era is ending. The company has ...

Humanoid robots are on the brink of being commercially useful, say Chinese and US firms that in the past three months have announced plans to produce them at scale. Many researchers agree that there ...

CES 2026 highlighted a trend growing over the past few years: The humanoid robots era. What would previously be announcements of fast quadruped robots, dog-like machines running around that would make ...

Humanoid robots have quietly crossed a threshold: they are no longer just research prototypes or sci-fi props. They walk, run, lift, learn workflows, and increasingly interact with human environments ...

Automakers are prioritizing long-term automation gains over current productivity limits of humanoid robots. Tesla and Hyundai are among the leaders pushing humanoid robots into factories within the ...

At the CES trade show in Las Vegas this week, robots poured coffee, played ping pong, dealt poker hands and folded laundry — all within a few feet of one another. Human-inspired robots, aptly called ...

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