Boston Dynamics latest Atlas humanoid robot is big, strong, and increasingly smart, thanks to Google. The company has plans to ship up to 30,000 per year.

Hyundai Motor Co.’s Boston Dynamics unit unveiled the latest iteration of a humanoid robot designed to work in the carmaker’s manufacturing plants starting in 2028, including at a factory in Savannah,

With the age of humanoids upon us, Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted that his robots will curb crime, eliminate poverty and do surgery.

Korean automaker Hyundai and its subsidiary, Boston Dynamics, unveil a sweeping artificial intelligence robotics strategy at the CES trade show Monday in Las Vegas.

But if you shrink that robot down, give it the ambulatory capabilities of a human and bathe the whole thing in AI, Hyundai reckons it can replace the most unreliable element of the modern assembly line: the human laborer. Enter Atlas, one of those humanoid ‘bots I mentioned up top there. As it turns out, Atlas can do more than dodge a hockey stick.

The plan marks a step toward automating higher-risk and repetitive manufacturing tasks, the South Korean company said.

Tech companies are collectively spending billions to turn the age old sci-fi trope of humanoid, general-purpose robots into reality. So far, that momentous effort has mostly produced staged performances,

The He Xuan humanoid robot band which performs on instruments including the piano, drums, guitar, and yangqin, has filled its schedule for the Lunar New Year shows in mid-February.

According to a SwitchBot video demonstration, the humanoid can serve coffee, wash dishes, do laundry, fold clothes, and more. It performs some tasks itself while delegating complex duties to task-specific devices.