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Is 2026 the year home robots stop being demos?

How often are today’s “home robots” actually doing the work alone? In many of the most convincing kitchen-and-laundry demos, ...
Yet, despite all this progress, there’s one question I hear again and again from warehouse operators: Why aren’t we getting ...
Cleanco Facilities Management is cutting aircraft downtime, labour and water use with advanced robotic cleaning systems ...
So what will be the big tech stories of 2026? There are the usual suspects, to be sure, with upcoming devices from Apple, ...
When the iPhone debuted, critics said thumbs couldn’t type on glass. Steve Jobs disagreed. People did learn. But with tech ...
Humans are desperate to put the robots to work. The only problem is, the robots don’t “work” to any degree. These humanoid ...
Inside the friendly head unit lives a custom chipset running LG's "Physical AI," a multimodal vision-language model. This lets the bot read your face, chat in a soft voice, and se ...
While the introduction of robotics at Amazon is still in an early phase, the technological transformation underway continues ...
Most Chinese companies believe that if you can manufacture at scale, you can innovate, and they’re not wrong. A lot of the ...
When Elon Musk talks about robotics, he rarely hides the ambition behind the dream. Tesla's Optimus is pitched as an ...
From sassy humanoids, to AI-powered pets and chore-handling assistants, we sought out as many cute, strange and capable ...
Abstract: Achieving efficient remote teleoperation is particularly challenging in unknown environments, as the teleoperator must rapidly build an understanding of the site’s layout. Online 3D mapping ...