The latest public demo of Tesla’s humanoid robot was supposed to showcase a confident stride into the future of automation.

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

In the latest episode of What the Future, we run down the best highlights and fails from the first World Humanoid Robot Games held last week in China. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video ...

First, though, the machines will have to learn how to pour water or carry soup, as a Chinese restaurant that replaced its wait staff with robots quickly learned. If we trusted this drone to get little ...

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, ...

Robot fails are almost a given at technology trade shows, and this year's CES is no exception. As LG unveiled its lineup of smart appliances, executive David VanderWaal quickly lost rapport with his ...