CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — Middle and high school students gathered at Falling Creek Middle School for the second Richmond qualifier for FIRST Tech Challenge, a robotics competition that's teaching ...

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, ...

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 ...

In 2025, the Jetsons fantasy of a robot butler stopped feeling like retro-sci fi kitsch and started looking—if you squint through a teleoperator’s VR headset—almost plausible. Meanwhile, investors ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

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 ...