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 ...
Three robotics experts said humanoid robots need to move beyond flashy demos to performing tasks that are actually useful in ...
If 2025 was the year we asked, “Can they walk?”, 2026 is the year we are asking, “Can they do the dishes?” The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has always been a circus of gadgets, but this year ...
Meet ALLEX, a Korean-built humanoid robot designed to tackle one of robotics’ toughest challenges: ...
Imagine a world where your morning coffee is brewed by a robot that remembers your exact preferences, your home is cleaned by a machine with human-like dexterity, and factories are staffed by tireless ...
Even with those limitations, orders for the machines are accelerating. Manufacturers such as BYD and Foxconn, both partners ...
Robots that mimic humans are set to create a $5 trillion market. But it will take years and a lot of improvements to get there. Humanoid robots are expected to be deployed in factories and households ...
OpenAI has rapidly scaled its robotics lab over the past year and plans to open up a second lab, insiders say.
Boston Dynamics unveiled its latest Atlas humanoid robot this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and its entire production run for 2026 is already sold and accounted for. And its ...
Twenty-five years of the new millennium have passed and we’re still waiting for the futuristic world we were promised: Living in space, hover-cars, jet packs and extraterrestrial encounters. However, ...
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 ...
What can a humanoid robot actually do in the real world? If you’ve seen videos online of the Boston Dynamics Atlas robot or Tesla’s Optimus bot, you might have assumed that these machines are just ...