The VI Bots, St. Paul VI Catholic High School’s second-year robotics team, began the 2024–25 FIRST Tech Challenge season ...

Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET. He covers future tech, sustainability and the social impact of technology. He is co-host of CNET's "What The Future" series and Executive ...

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet. By Meaghan Tobin and Xinyun Wu Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Robots made by Chinese ...

In the future, a caregiving machine might gently lift an elderly person out of bed in the morning and help them get dressed. A cleaning bot could trundle through a child’s room, picking up scattered ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. Chinese robot manufacturer Unitree just launched the “world’s first” humanoid robot app ...

What’s keeping them off the street is a challenge robotics researchers have circled for decades. Building robots is easier than making them function in the real world. A robot can repeat a TikTok ...

In the agricultural sector, labor shortages are increasing the need for automated harvesting using robots. However, some fruits, like tomatoes, are tricky to harvest. Tomatoes typically bear fruit in ...

A new video surfacing from a Tesla demonstration in Miami this weekend shows the Optimus humanoid robot taking a nasty fall. But it’s not the fall itself that is raising eyebrows, it’s the specific ...

When Xpeng unveiled its Next Gen Iron humanoid recently, the robot glided across the stage with movement so fluid that the crowd froze. Many viewers thought they saw an actor in a suit. Clips spread ...

Can everyone dial it down a little with the enthusiasm for humanoid robots that can’t even do anything useful yet? You’re scaring the Chinese economy. On Thursday, three Bloomberg reporters based in ...

The robot walked over 2.5 full marathons in China. One robot just walked its way into history. Chinese robotics company AgiBot has set a new world record for the longest distance walked by a humanoid ...

Commentary: The idea of a human-controlled robot in your home might sound weird, but perhaps it's not all that different from what we're used to. Connor is a technology writer and editor, with a ...