Humanoid robots are no longer confined to science fiction or flashy tech demos. A new generation of friendly, home-focused humanoid robots is emerging with one clear goal: to make everyday life easier ...

The Most Realistic Humanoid Robots in The World It's all too easy to think of robots as a far-off prediction. Despite more than a century of books, films, and TV shows depicting mechanical automatons ...

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, ...

New research from the University of Chicago suggests that computers make better tutors when they don’t pretend to be human.

As companies like Tesla, Figure AI, and Agility Robotics race to build humanoids—robots designed to resemble and move like ...

CES 2026 was awash in walking, lifting, interacting machines. But robots that actually look human aren't necessary in industrial settings. The focus is shifting from humanoid appearance to ...

Eduardo B. Sandoval is a Friend of The Conversation. Last year, Norwegian-US tech company 1X announced a strange new product: “the world’s first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform ...

Xiaomi has trialed the use of its self-developed humanoid robots in its electric vehicle factory. Two humanoid robots can complete 90% of the work in three hours, Xiaomi President Lu Weibing told CNBC ...

The last decade has seen vast improvements in humanoid robots, but graduating to widespread use might require going back to the fundamentals. “Not reliably,” Hurst said. “I don’t think it’s totally ...