Eduardo B. Sandoval is a Friend of The Conversation. Last year, Norwegian-US tech company 1X announced a strange new product: “the world’s first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform ...

EngineAI, the Chinese company known for its humanoid fighting robot T800 — which made headlines for kicking the company's CEO — has reportedly deployed a new "Terminator"-like robot to patrol the ...

While humanoid robots have a long way to go to prove useful in our day-to-day lives, they’ve at least made leaps and bounds in showing off their agility on stage. Case in point, the televised Spring ...

If you tuned in to China’s 2026 CCTV Spring Festival Gala looking for traditional lion dances and nostalgic tunes, you may have done a double-take when what greeted you was a squad of humanoid robots ...

It's not just people — in China, the robots are also getting ready to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Friday was dress rehearsal day for four cute humanoid robots, each about 95 centimeters (3 feet) ...

Fans of humanoid robots might want to catch a recent NBC News report on Unitree’s Lunar New Year celebration. It features chorus lines of robots performing feats of dexterity and coordination—kung fu, ...

Robots come in all shapes and sizes. You can buy immobile handheld robots at stores like Costco, and farmers in China employ tractor-like robots to tend fields of crops. However, the pinnacle of robot ...

When the streets of Los Angeles flooded with rain last week, some of the city’s residents found themselves feeling sorry for a peculiar object: a food delivery robot floundering in water and debris.

Folks, it finally happened: they gave a robot a sword. Over the past few years, engineers have often used dancing and martial arts to showcase their humanoid robots. Now to ring in the Chinese New ...

AI’s concealed labor has repeatedly led us to overestimate the technology. Humanoid robots are entering a similar phase. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI.

On her smartphone map, she watched the tiny dot scurrying toward her Fort Lauderdale address in real time. Then her phone buzzed with an alert: “Your food delivery robot is here!” Karla Joan ...

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