Robots have never looked more impressive, yet in the real world they still fail at the basic promise of doing useful work without constant human babysitting. Slick demo clips and viral humanoid stunts ...

Humanoid robots promise revolutionary automation, but their complexity, instability and safety gaps may outweigh the appeal of human-shaped machines.

Xiaomi has placed humanoid robots on the assembly line of one of its electric vehicle factories, framing the deployment as an “internship” for the machines. The trial, announced through the company’s ...

If generative AI improves what robots know, physical AI improves how they behave. One of humanoid robotics’ longest-standing problems is the ‘sim-to-real’ gap: policies that look agile in simulation ...

In 2025, the Jetsons fantasy of a robot butler stopped feeling like retro-sci fi kitsch and started looking—if you squint through a teleoperator’s VR headset—almost plausible. Meanwhile, investors ...

Image courtesy by QUE.com China is accelerating its push into next-generation robotics with a new wave of national standards ...