Picture a robot. What comes to mind? Perhaps a droid from Star Wars or The Jetsons: a machine that can move, speak and perform tasks all by itself. Or maybe your imagination jumps to humanoid robots à ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

We often imagine robots in spotless factories or research labs—perfectly calibrated, humming in harmony with code and sensors. But the real test of robotics happens outside those controlled ...

Labor is breaking. Robots are scaling. The real bottleneck isn’t hardware, it’s orchestration. Train humans to lead machines ...

AMES, Iowa – You may not remember it, but odds are you took a few tumbles during your toddler era. You weren’t alone. Falling, after all, is a natural consequence of learning to crawl, walk, climb and ...

The PM01 humanoid robot by EngineAI shows off balance in new footage, highlighting stability and resilience as key goals for real-world robotics applications.

JINAN/HANGZHOU — At a "robot school" in East China's Shandong province, dozens of humanoid robots are mimicking human engineers as they carry trays, fold clothes and fetch bottled water from the ...

Tutor Intelligence Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence-powered warehouse robot workers, said today it has raised $34 million in early funding to accelerate the commercialization of its ...

On September 25, 2025, Google DeepMind quietly released Gemini Robotics 1.5. To the casual observer, it may have seemed like just another software update, but for the robotics industry, it signaled a ...

In two new papers, UC Berkeley roboticist Ken Goldberg explains why robots are not gaining real-world skills as quickly as AI chatbots are gaining language fluency. UC Berkeley News spoke with ...

In real life, robots are pretty simple. They are just, like, an arm putting cars together or what have you. In movies and TV, though, robots have long been intelligent. They’ve had personalities. They ...