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 ...

Fans of humanoid robots might want to catch a recent NBC News report on Unitree’s Lunar New Year celebration. It features chorus lines of robots performing feats of dexterity and coordination—kung fu, ...

A Chinese robotics company recently did something most tech firms would never dare attempt. Agibot put more than 200 robots on stage for a live one-hour televised event called Agibot Night. The gala ...

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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.

After a year-long pilot project, Toyota’s Canadian manufacturing subsidiary has contracted seven humanoid robots to work in a plant building RAV4 SUVs under a robots-as-a-service deal. “After ...

Figure AI’s latest Helix 02 demo shows a humanoid robot autonomously tidying a living room, highlighting full-body control, tool use, and adaptive cleanup.

Eye-catching martial arts performance at China gala had viewers and experts wondering what else humanoids can do Dancing humanoid robots took centre stage on Monday during the annual China Media Group ...

Sammy Azdoufal used Claude Code to build an app to link his brand-new DJI Romo vacuum to a PS5 controller. Then he noticed something strange. The app wasn’t just controlling his vacuum. It was ...

Dancing humanoid robots took centre stage on Monday during the annual China Media Group’s Spring Festival Gala, China’s most-watched official television broadcast. They lunged and backflipped (landing ...

The race to dominate physical AI is under way, and Beijing may already have the upper hand Matthew Field is a Senior Technology Reporter covering the UK tech sector. He has covered social media giants ...

Humanoid robots at China's Spring Festival Gala showcased impressive moves, but their commercial viability depends on performing mundane tasks like household chores. China leads global humanoid robot ...