At a Shanghai exhibition center this July, a machine appeared that at first glance defied classification. Shanghai-based Run Robotics unveiled a robot at the WAIC 2026 conference that it calls

London-based robotics company Humanoid, officially known as SKL Robotics, has joined the ranks of so-called unicorns—young companies valued at more than one billion dollars. According to...

California-based 1X from Palo Alto has unveiled new hands for its NEO robot. They have 25 degrees of freedom, are tendon-driven like human hands and, according to the manufacturer, approach human dext...

During halftime in the round-of-16 match between Brazil and Norway, something happened that the tournament had never seen in its 96-year history. Humanoid robot Atlas walked onto the pitch, carrying i...

Startup General Intuition announced it has raised $320 million. The money will mainly go toward one goal: teaching artificial intelligence to move in the real world by letting it play video games. The...

In a hall in Austin, Texas, humanoid robots undergo daily training. They stack boxes on conveyor belts, sort toys into bins and accessories into crates. People accompany them almost all the time.

The Oregon company, whose bipedal robots move crates around warehouses, is heading to Wall Street. Agility Robotics announced a merger with an investment firm that values it at $2.5 billion. It will b...

What happens when you encounter a human-sized robot in a factory and need to hand it a heavy component? Today, it would most likely stop or slow down. And that is exactly what Nvidia wants to change....

When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone in 2007, he didn’t start with what his phone could do. He started with what every other phone did wrong. Startup Genesis AI is now trying something similar. Its fir...

A humanoid robot climbed to the summit of Ecuador’s Chimborazo volcano. The machine, named Pemba, spent hours walking across ash, rocks and ice before its human team carried it through the toughest se...

Both the public and private hospitals in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, have announced investments in robotic and AI-powered surgery within months of each other. For patients, this means

Autonomous vehicles were supposed to transform how we move around cities. Fewer accidents, fewer cars on the road, smoother traffic. Waymo, an Alphabet subsidiary, became a symbol of that promise. But