Tech companies are collectively spending billions to turn the age old sci-fi trope of humanoid, general-purpose robots into ...

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McLain seems to have come away with the impression that makers of robots are worried they’ve oversold a technology that, well ...

UBTech rolls out its 1,000th Walker S2 robot, marking the shift from prototypes to large-scale, real-world humanoid ...

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What’s keeping them off the street is a challenge robotics researchers have circled for decades. Building robots is easier than making them function in the real world. A robot can repeat a TikTok ...

Despite billions of dollars in investment, startups say their androids can only perform simple tasks.

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Midea has officially unveiled its next-generation humanoid robot, Miro U, at an event in Guangzhou, China. The robot is the world’s first to feature a six-arm wheel-leg design, and it is built for ...

The tech industry has become obsessed with the idea of humanoid robots, bipedal androids designed to complete tasks on behalf of their flesh-and-blood counterparts. But as many experts have argued, ...

When Xpeng unveiled its Next Gen Iron humanoid recently, the robot glided across the stage with movement so fluid that the crowd froze. Many viewers thought they saw an actor in a suit. Clips spread ...