A child with a new cochlear implant works on auditory rehabilitation exercises at home in Toulouse, France, aided by Pepper, a human-looking robot. In Canada, another child interacts with Pepper, who ...

When soft music is playing in the background, a brief exchange with a robot can evoke unexpected feelings of intimacy. Researchers were surprised to discover how much of a role the background music ...

A child with a new cochlear implant works on auditory rehabilitation exercises at home in Toulouse, France, aided by Pepper, a human-looking robot. In Canada, another child interacts with Pepper, who ...

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 ...

The new robotic industry may have some surprise funding sources (“The Robot Revolution Is Real. Tesla, Hyundai, and More Stocks to Play It,” Cover Story, Feb. 6). For example, long-term care insurance ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CES 2026 was awash in walking, lifting, interacting machines. But robots that actually look human aren't necessary in industrial settings. The focus is shifting from humanoid appearance to ...

If robots ever rise up and take over the world, we might look at laundry-folding assistants as the Trojan Horse that started it all. On X, Weave Robotics founder Evan Wineland said Weave is focused on ...