At 39C3, experts demonstrate how poor the security of humanoid robots is. The range of attacks extends to jailbreaking the integrated AI.

What if the future of robotics wasn’t confined to industrial labs or sci-fi movies but could be held in your hands, ready to teach, learn, and innovate alongside you? Enter the Unitree R1, a humanoid robot designed not just to perform tasks but to ...

I spent my childhood longing for him to bring me fun drinks on his little tray while I reclined on the sofa, glued to back-to-back Animaniacs episodes. Looking back, my desire for Emiglio may well have been the reason I committed myself to a career in writing about technology.

The price tag is orders of magnitude cheaper than most robots in its class, which can run into tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now China’s Unitree Robotics, best known for its nimble quadruped robots, has unveiled something that’s ...

Chinese humanoid robot makers will dominate CES 2026, with nearly a dozen firms and a record Hong Kong delegation showcasing next-gen machines.

When the Next-Gen Iron humanoid was unveiled to the public earlier this month, strutting fluidly down the runway before a gobsmacked audience, it made headlines – but not for the reasons its creators at Xpeng had hoped. The robot moved so uncannily like ...

AI powered robots are slowly making their way into our world, from delivery bots on wheels to caregiver bots for the planet’s growing elderly population. Nothing has captured the imagination of investors quite like humanoid robots, though, as they’ve ...

Elon Musk’s latest burst of attention was not for his own Tesla robots but for a Chinese humanoid that can dance, flip and keep perfect time on a crowded concert stage. His public praise for Unitree’s G1 humanoid,

With Figure 03, we see images of a humanoid robot doing the dishes, serving drinks, or working at a hotel reception desk and our minds tend to fill in the gaps and assume the robot is acting like a human because it has full human capabilities and not something with its own special limitations, such as, theoretically, stopping dead if a glass isn't where it's supposed to be or handing a menu to thin air when a customer doesn't act as intended.