Humanoid robots spent 2025 straddling a strange line between breakthrough and blooper reel. They poured lattes, posed in fashion campaigns and even stepped into kickboxing rings, only to trip, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I explore humans, technologies, and what’s next. Dec 01, 2025, 01:14pm EST As factories finalize 2026 budgets, a costly choice ...

This striking humanoid robot is the R1 from Robbyant, a company owned by Chinese tech giant Ant Group. The allure of humanoid robots is their versatility – you can imagine them doing any job that a ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A robot named Pepper greeted visitors at the Aina Haina Public Library for the first time Wednesday. Pepper is responsible for greeting visitors, answering questions, ...

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It’s been quite a year for humanoid robots, with all manner of increasingly advanced designs coming to our attention. The selections here focus more on physical movement than AI smarts, with the ...

Robots can be programmed to do a variety of tasks, like packing boxes and even performing surgery. But each individual movement or task requires its own specific training process, which makes it hard ...

Home robots are no longer a futuristic concept—they are becoming a tangible part of modern living. Advances in consumer robotics have made smart home robots more capable, intuitive, and affordable ...

China’s humanoid robots were the talk of the internet after this year’s Spring Festival Gala, where dozens of them kicked, flipped, and danced their way through a four-hour state television broadcast ...

Chinese robotics firm Unitree Robotics has been granted two design patents for humanoid robots, according to the latest public disclosures from China’s National Intellectual Property Administration.

TrendForce projects China's humanoid robot output will grow 94% year-on-year in 2025, marking a shift from R&D-focused development to commercial-scale production Unitree Robotics and Agibot together ...