Humanoid robots spent 2025 straddling a strange line between breakthrough and blooper reel. They poured lattes, posed in fashion campaigns and even stepped into kickboxing rings, only to trip, ...

What Humanoid Robots Actually Look Like in 2026. The Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot Is Rewriting Robotics Economics—And Most ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the ...

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 year, artificial intelligence (AI) helped push the robotics world further, creating machines that can perform increasingly complex tasks. Machines even got their own sporting championship in 2025 ...

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 ...

North American robot orders rose in 2025, reflecting strong investment in automation across a range of industries. According to new data from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), companies ...

Serve Robotics expanded robot deployments and partnerships, but monetization and utilization lag significantly behind operational growth. SERV reported $2.7M in 2025 revenue and guided for $26M in ...