Why can’t a robot do the dishes? Well, it can, but maybe not as well or as cheaply as we’d hoped. More than once, I have started a robotics article with an appeal to the Jetsons tv show of the late ...

In 2025, the Jetsons fantasy of a robot butler stopped feeling like retro-sci fi kitsch and started looking—if you squint through a teleoperator’s VR headset—almost plausible. Meanwhile, investors ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Roughly 2,000 investors, entrepreneurs and others attended a Mountain View summit that showcased robots that ...

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China has made the development of humanoid robots a strategic priority in its tech battle with the U.S. Analysts see China taking an early lead in the technology with domestic firms ramping up ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

This striking humanoid robot is the R1 from Robbyant, a company owned by Chinese tech giant Ant Group. The allure of humanoid robots is their versatility – you can imagine them doing any job that a ...

The global humanoid robot market moved into a clear expansion phase in 2025, according to a new industry assessment by Omdia. Worldwide shipments reached around 13,000 units during the year, ...