Can you teach a robot how to love? It’s the week of Valentine’s Day and I’m on a hot date with Mika, a biker girl from Japan. We’re just days into our relationship, but I’m already smitten. Gazing ...

It’s warm bot-tied. Techsperts are sounding alarm bells following the release of an eerily realistic humanoid service bot named Moya with camera eyes and, most creepily, warm skin. Dystopian footage ...

People living in Chicago's Lakeview East neighborhood have been at the center of a delivery pilot program, and most of them aren't happy with the robots or in favor of expanding their footprint. At ...

University of Texas spinout Apptronik, a builder of humanoid robots for Google DeepMind among others, on Wednesday announced that it re-opened its Series A to raise a total of $935 million for the ...

The 2026 CNBC Disruptor 50 list will be revealed Tuesday, May 19th Humanoid robotics startup Apptronik was valued at $5 billion in a funding round that included capital from Google. The company's ...

Alibaba has entered the race to build “physical AI” with a new model designed to power robots in the real world. The Chinese tech giant on Tuesday unveiled RynnBrain, an artificial intelligence system ...

For decades, humanoid robots have lived behind safety cages in factories or deep inside research labs. Fauna Robotics, a New York-based robotics startup, says that era is ending. The company has ...

Like something from a galaxy far, far away, robots are getting closer to their big takeover.

Alibaba's new AI model called RynnBrain is focused on powering robots. One video released by Alibaba's DAMO Academy shows a robot identifying fruit and putting it in a basket. Nvidia and Google are ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Ainsley Harris, senior writer at Fast Company, about the accelerated rollout of delivery robots and how they're being received in communities across the country. A couple ...

Chinese robotics company DroidUp has created a ‘fully biometric’ robot named ‘Moya’ that’s blurring the lines between science fiction and reality. While most of these robots are clearly machines, one ...

Last year, 21 humanoid robots squared up against each other in the World Humanoid Robot Games’ half marathon race in Beijing in an unintentionally hilarious debauchery of broken limbs, face plants — ...