This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A hot new job has emerged in Los Angeles: robot wrangler to help delivery bots navigate the real world. The robots ...

A Chinese robotics company recently did something most tech firms would never dare attempt. Agibot put more than 200 robots on stage for a live one-hour televised event called Agibot Night. The gala ...

Eduardo B. Sandoval is a Friend of The Conversation. Last year, Norwegian-US tech company 1X announced a strange new product: “the world’s first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform ...

Chinese company Unitree Robotics plans to ship around 20,000 humanoid robots in 2026, almost four times the 5,500 it shipped last year. The firm’s chief executive, Wang Xingxing, drew global attention ...

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 ...

Alibaba's new AI model called RynnBrain is focused on powering robots. One video released by Alibaba's DAMO Academy shows a robot identifying fruit and putting it in a basket. Nvidia and Google are ...

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Last year, 21 humanoid ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Sprout, a 3 1/2-foot-tall humanoid from Fauna ...

For years, humanoid robots at CES felt like carefully controlled previews of a distant future. Impressive, but safely confined to prototypes and concept demos. CES 2026 marked a clear break from that ...

In 2021, 60 Minutes visited the offices of robotics company Boston Dynamics and met an early model of its humanoid robot, Atlas. It could run, jump and maintain its balance when pushed. But it was ...

Twenty-five years of the new millennium have passed and we’re still waiting for the futuristic world we were promised: Living in space, hover-cars, jet packs and extraterrestrial encounters. However, ...

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet. By Meaghan Tobin and Xinyun Wu Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Robots made by Chinese ...