Humanoid robots are attracting major investment as AI advances. Here’s what they can do, where they could be used and why the ...

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Last Sunday, at the Beijing E-Town Half Marathon, a red humanoid robot of a type named Lightning finished the course in 50 minutes and 26 seconds—faster than the human world record. Its long legs were ...

The robot pauses at the edge of the room as an engineer checks its sensors. Then, with a soft mechanical hum, this humanoid machine begins to move. It lifts a mannequin from a bed, slowly and ...

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world. Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the ...

No one said the humanoid robot revolution would be easy — startups are facing roadblocks on their drive to create a true chore helper. The first robot vacuum I ever owned was a Neato Robotics XV ...

As with the FCC’s sweeping ban on foreign-made routers this May, the agency argues that humanoid and consumer robots, including robot vacuums, robot mowers, and delivery robots, could be used for ...