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 ...

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 — ...

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Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...

DUBAI, UAE, Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Dematic has partnered with automotive distributor Mohammad Naser ALSayer & Sons (MNSS) to deliver one of the Middle East's most significant automation ...

For years, humanoid robots at CES felt like carefully controlled previews of a distant future. Impressive, but safely confined to prototypes and concept demos. CES 2026 marked a clear break from that ...

CES always brings robots – some useful, some confusing, some that feel like movie props that wandered into the wrong conference. In 2026, there’s a real shift: Robots aren’t trying to be sci-fi ...

Twenty-five years of the new millennium have passed and we’re still waiting for the futuristic world we were promised: Living in space, hover-cars, jet packs and extraterrestrial encounters. However, ...

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 ...

San Francisco–based robotics startup Foundation is accelerating its push into military humanoid robotics, outlining plans to manufacture up to 50,000 humanoid robots by the end of 2027. The company’s ...

UPS will invest about $120 million to buy 400 truck-unloading robots from Pickle Robot Co., adding detail to its $9 billion automation plan aimed at cutting labor costs. The robots can unload trucks ...