This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. On a languid summer afternoon, I drive to Milton Keynes, a midsize city 60 miles northwest of London and a few miles ...

A highly anticipated Russian humanoid robot's debut fell flat when the machine face-planted during a live presentation in Moscow this week. On Tuesday, Nov. 11, the robot, named AIDOL, made its ...

This AI Sputnik turned out to be a total Splatnik. A much-hyped Russian robot faceplanted and flailed on stage during its grand debut in a humiliating misstep for mankind. AIDOL — an android hailed as ...

We’ve already been impressed by the astonishing balance and control of Unitree’s G1 humanoid robot, with an earlier video showing it performing flips and other acrobatic moves with aplomb, and another ...

HydroSpread, a breakthrough fabrication method, lets scientists build ultrathin soft robots directly on water. These tiny, insect-inspired machines could transform robotics, healthcare, and ...

If you entered a test site operated by Japan’s space agency recently, you would’ve seen a bunch of tiny red robots trundling across a sandy surface. The AI-powered robots were being tested ahead of a ...

If you’re taking a walk in the city of Irvine, don’t be surprised if you encounter a little robot on your path. The city has contracted with Oregon company, Daxbot, to send their robots across the ...

Robot vacuums that can climb stairs are now officially a thing if IFA 2025 is any indication. At the Berlin tech show, Eufy announced the MarsWalker, a dang stair-climbing mech suit that your robot ...

Private renewable energy projects are still moving forward despite a pullback in government support, and new technology is making that construction more efficient. Solar farms, for example, take ...

Aug. 20 (UPI) --A humanoid robot can now perform complex tasks with a large behavior model without needing hand programming for each task. Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute announced this ...

Little Caesars is getting into autonomous delivery for the first time. The third-largest pizza chain announced a new partnership with Serve Robotics and Uber Eats to offer robotic sidewalk delivery to ...

These days, robots with varying degrees of impressiveness can manage all kinds of tasks. But two diminutive humanoids seen boxing with outsize gloves at the recent World AI Conference in Shanghai may ...