A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Tech historians may look back on 2025 as a kind of trough in consumer robotics.

LG's humanoid CLOiD bot wowed the CES crowd with promises of laundry, dishes, and dinner prep. It impressed me, too—but ...

I picked Aqara’s Smart Lock U400 and Roborock’s Saros Rover robot vacuum as the overall best smart home gadgets from CES 2026 ...

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Ghost will be helping provide food to those in need in Los Angeles. The Swedish rockers have teamed up with the organization FeedLA to launch the Skele-Bot, a Ghost-themed food delivery robot.

The author of the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New Scientist Book Club, on how she ...

Rokid is pairing its display-free smart glasses with Mudra’s neural wristband to offer wearable, touch-free control at a ...

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 ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For many, iRobot’s Roomba robot vacuum was their first experience with a home robot. When I got my Roomba in ...

While Tesla struggles shake off allegations of remote operation for its robots, CATL is putting its new “Moz” humanoid robots to work — the company says it’s got the world’s first large-scale ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. Chinese robot manufacturer Unitree just launched the “world’s first” humanoid robot app ...

Billions of dollars are flowing into humanoid robot startups, as investors bet that the industry will soon put humanlike machines in warehouses, factories and our living rooms. Many leaders of those ...