Humanoid robots spent 2025 straddling a strange line between breakthrough and blooper reel. They poured lattes, posed in ...

It’s been quite a year for humanoid robots, with all manner of increasingly advanced designs coming to our attention. The ...

A Tesla Optimus robot took a tumble during a recent demo, and its virality is emblematic of deep-seated scepticism over AI ...

In the latest episode of What the Future, we run down the best highlights and fails from the first World Humanoid Robot Games held last week in China. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video ...

First, though, the machines will have to learn how to pour water or carry soup, as a Chinese restaurant that replaced its wait staff with robots quickly learned. If we trusted this drone to get little ...

Robot fails are almost a given at technology trade shows, and this year's CES is no exception. As LG unveiled its lineup of smart appliances, executive David VanderWaal quickly lost rapport with his ...

Penn’s Sung Robotics Lab is working with NASA to lead an initiative investigating how robots can explore and navigate extraterrestrial environments. The project, titled “Temporarily, Robots Unite to ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian space capsule carrying a humanoid robot has failed to dock as planned with the International Space Station. A statement from the Russian space agency Roscosmos said the failure ...