It’s been quite a year for humanoid robots, with all manner of increasingly advanced designs coming to our attention. The ...

A Tesla Optimus robot took a tumble during a recent demo, and its virality is emblematic of deep-seated scepticism over AI ...

Turns out, Skynet isn’t quite ready to rise just yet. Welcome to a roundup of funny AI fails that remind us the robots still have a long way to go before world domination. From hilariously wrong image ...

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 ...

It appears that robot boxing is not yet ready for prime time, unless it is intended to be a comedy show. Honestly, when one robot is a preening pacifist, and the other an idiot, the boxing is more fun ...

Hospitals trumpet robotic surgery as innovation. Surgeons market it as progress. Manufacturers insist the technology is safe. But when things go wrong, everyone insists it was someone else’s fault.

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on robotics and AI, ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian space capsule carrying a humanoid robot has failed to dock as planned with the International Space Station. A statement from the Russian space agency Roscosmos said the failure ...