When Elon Musk talks about robotics, he rarely hides the ambition behind the dream. Tesla's Optimus is pitched as an ...

We're not shipping a lot of humanoid robots yet. But shipments are forecast to almost double each year for the next decade.

Humans are desperate to put the robots to work. The only problem is, the robots don’t “work” to any degree. These humanoid ...

If 2025 was the year we asked, “Can they walk?”, 2026 is the year we are asking, “Can they do the dishes?” The Consumer ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. In an odd way, that’s probably good news for the United States. Trimming the number of ...

Laundry is a complex, multistep chore many of us would happily hand off to a robot: collecting, sorting, loading, unloading, ...

During a Q&A session on Tuesday, Huang didn't hesitate when asked how long it would take for humanoid robots to match ...

Chinese EV company XPENG unveiled its next-gen humanoid robot IRON during its AI Day event in Guangzhou, having it walk onto the stage in a stilted yet strangely lifelike saunter. The reveal swiftly ...

Probably the most famous mechanical chess player is the chess playing Turk by Wolfgang von Kempelen, unveiled in 1769 (see ...

A new artificial skin unveiled at CES 2026 could give robots human-like sensitivity, helping machines better understand ...