Scientists have created a robot that learns lip movements by watching humans rather than following preset rules. The ...

Robots displayed at CES 2026 show they're not trying to be sci-fi anymore. They’re practical, folding laundry and offering ...

In a room at the University of Oslo in Norway, Tiago moves around, looking people straight in the eye with a smiling face. Sometimes Tiago gets agitated, like when it plays Connect Four, a board game ...

Realbotix aims to make its robots as human as possible, and at CES 2026, I had an opportunity to interview them and see how ...

The rise of humanoid robots isn’t just a technical story – it’s a test of how much human connection we’re willing to ...

Three months ago, my history club had a talk on the history and future of robots. The speaker, who has a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence, predicted that five years from now, every home would have one ...

Picture the scene: You move into a nursing home in the final years of your life, when you are no longer able to manage on your own. And there you discover the future. The place teems with humanoid ...

We have long been fascinated with our own image. In the 1920s play Rossum’s Universal Robots, Czech writer Karel Čapek coined the term robot to describe human-looking creatures forced to work in ...