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.

China’s annual gala on Lunar New Year’s Eve has showcased Beijing’s giant leap in technology as humanoid robots took centre stage to perform a joint martial arts routine featuring several firsts.

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. China has been scaling up its efforts to develop ...

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 firm Agibot released a new video showcasing its humanoid robots practicing martial arts, demonstrating impressive synchronicity and precision. The robots were seen practicing kung fu ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Thursday the company is planning to make its Optimus robots available for sale to the public by the end of 2027. Musk spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, ...

Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed at Columbia Engineering learned realistic lip movements by watching its own ...

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 ...

Machines have been helping humans build new cars faster and more accurately for decades, but that relationship is about to shift dramatically. Some industry experts now believe we’re just five years ...

CES always has its share of attention-grabbing robots. But this year in particular seemed to be a landmark year for robotics. The advancement in AI technology has not only given robots better “brains, ...

When Elon Musk talks about robotics, he rarely hides the ambition behind the dream. Tesla’s Optimus is pitched as an all-purpose humanoid robot that can do the heavy lifting on factory floors and free ...

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 ...