Humanoid robots are moving rapidly from science fiction into factories, workplaces and potentially our homes, powered by advances in AI and billions of investment.
In 2025, Shenzhen-based robotics manufacturer UBTech began deploying its silver, humanoid Walker S1 model across car assembly lines in China. Working alongside human employees, the robot quickly ...
The newest home robots look less like a Roomba and more like C-3PO. Last year, a demo of 1X Technologies' home robot, NEO, ...
As AI continues to develop at a rapid pace, social robots powered by AI are becoming more commonplace in customer service settings such as retail, hospitality, tourism and health care. But as these ...
Three books unpack our infatuation with prediction, and what we lose when we outsource this task to machines. To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying ...
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Atlas robot’s new hand may outperform human-like designs
Making a hand that’s capable, reliable, and manufacturable is a very hard problem ...
Judging by a slew of recent corporate announcements, your next “co-worker” might be an artificial intelligence agent – doing the work of an assistant, job scheduler, morning debriefer, learning coach ...
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