Sophia wasn’t particularly talkative that evening. Earlier that day, she’d been onstage at the conference I was attending and had been teased for a gesture that looked as though she were flipping off ...

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Boston Dynamics has been working on the Atlas robot since 2013, and it's come a long way since. The key? Humanoid robots shouldn't copy human anatomy exactly, said Boston Dynamics' CEO Robert Playter ...

Roborock's Saros Rover rightfully earned our Best of CES award, as I saw it successfully dodge obstacles, clean and even dance. Ajay has worked in tech journalism for over a decade as a reporter, ...

A passenger train in Miami demolished a food delivery robot Thursday evening after the autonomous device became stranded on railroad tracks. Video of the incident shows the robot motionless at a ...

In the ever-evolving world of robotics and artificial intelligence, a groundbreaking innovation is taking the industry by storm. It’s neither an intricate software algorithm nor a hyper-intelligent AI ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. At CES 2026, we put the robots to the test to see whether they’re ready for real homes — or still stuck in demo ...

Globally, just 13,317 humanoid robots shipped last year. That’s not very many, but it’s forecast to almost double each year over the next decade. Global humanoid robot shipments will hit 2.6 million ...

CES always has its share of attention-grabbing robots. But this year in particular seemed to be a landmark year for robotics. The advancement in AI technology has not only given robots better “brains, ...