Company executives describe intelligent robots as tools for ergonomically demanding and safety-critical tasks, but it feels an awful lot like we’ve heard this one before.

Foundation’s Phantom robot might be built to fight and die, and Figure’s 03 humanoid robot is probably the smoothest, most agile robot I’ve seen in running, turning, and moving, but EngineAI’s T800 – ...

Honor’s Robot Phone blends robot-grade motion, embodied AI, and a stabilized 200MP gimbal camera, redefining smartphone interaction and pushing mobile storytelling toward cinematic, expressive, ...

Humanoid home robots are slowly entering consumer markets, but questions about privacy, practicality and human oversight continue to surround the technology.

Robots are beginning to appear in the public arena, such as in restaurants and supermarkets. But most are still hidden away in industrial settings, including warehouses and factories. That is set to ...

Home robots are no longer a futuristic concept—they are becoming a tangible part of modern living. Advances in consumer robotics have made smart home robots more capable, intuitive, and affordable ...

It’s been quite a year for humanoid robots, with all manner of increasingly advanced designs coming to our attention. The selections here focus more on physical movement than AI smarts, with the ...

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The very capable robotic picker-upper can grasp things on both sides and roam around freely. By Ari Daniel As a mother of three, Aude Billard, a roboticist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

An updated edition of the September 24, 2025, article. The U.S. robotics landscape has experienced transformative growth through late 2025, with the third quarter marking unprecedented technological ...