NEW YORK -- As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand with its grippers ...

Fauna, a new startup, is betting that humanoid robots will find success as hospitality workers, research assistants, and ...

Living with robots could lead to plenty of societal improvements, but they also pose risks to how we socialize and co-exist ...

Humans are desperate to put the robots to work. The only problem is, the robots don’t “work” to any degree. These humanoid bots are interesting. Some are even cute. Few, if any, are anywhere close to ...

Even with those limitations, orders for the machines are accelerating. Manufacturers such as BYD and Foxconn, both partners ...

With stats like that, one can’t help but suspect that the first country to have a million humanoids will be China.

Many researchers agree that there has been a step change in humanoid capability over the past five years, owing to cheaper ...

Humanoid robot companies employ armies of human operators to train their machines by doing tasks like squatting and washing ...

Humanoid robotics is edging closer to large-scale industrial reality. Humanoid, a fast-growing UK robotics and AI company, has announced a long-term strategic technology partnership with Schaeffler, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I explore humans, technologies, and what’s next. Dec 01, 2025, 01:14pm EST As factories finalize 2026 budgets, a costly choice ...

Radford and his co-founders are building machines to perform what they call "dull, dirty, dangerous and declining" jobs.