Dozens of new robot arms have been installed at General Motors’ flagship electric vehicle factory in Detroit—even as 1,300 workers remain out of work following what was supposed to be a temporary ...

Humanoid robots are rapidly transitioning from science fiction to practical applications, attracting significant investment from tech giants and startups. Their appeal lies in operating in human ...

Building on the country’s electric vehicle industry, Chinese companies are making robot parts at a scale and price point others can’t match. China’s lead in humanoid robots was evident at last month’s ...

Explore how medical robots and healthcare robotics enhance surgery, diagnostics, and hospital workflows, highlighting key benefits, real-world uses, and future trends in patient‑centered care. Pixabay ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Silicon Valley’s next great leap may be built on videos of people ...

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build molecular-scale devices. By borrowing ideas from traditional robotics and combining them ...

Amazon confirmed it has acquired Fauna Robotics, a startup building humanoid robots. Fauna's first product, called Sprout, is a $50,000 bipedal robot that's 3 feet, 6 inches tall and designed to be ...

Google's DeepMind division is partnering with Agile Robots to integrate its Gemini Robotics foundation models with Agile Robots’ hardware. The company aims to use the Agile Robot partnership to ...

Agile Robots has landed a partnership with Google DeepMind to develop robots with the artificial intelligence research lab, the latest in a string of robotics companies to do so. Munich, Germany-based ...

Mind Robotics, an industrial robotics lab spun out of the electric vehicle maker Rivian, has raised $500 million in a Series A funding round co-led by venture firms Accel and Andreessen Horowitz. The ...

At Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the nurse assistant stopped by a patient's room to pick up some lab samples while dropping off toiletries. Then, as the helper's pixilated blue eyes ...

AI’s concealed labor has repeatedly led us to overestimate the technology. Humanoid robots are entering a similar phase. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI.