Once the purview of science fiction, automatons are getting closer to reality.

Science fiction promised us humanoids. Do we even want them?

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. We often imagine robots in spotless factories or research labs—perfectly calibrated, humming ...

AMES, Iowa – You may not remember it, but odds are you took a few tumbles during your toddler era. You weren’t alone. Falling, after all, is a natural consequence of learning to crawl, walk, climb and ...

AGIBOT staged the world’s first large-scale live event fully led by humanoid robots, testing real-world performance and ...

Tutor Intelligence Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence-powered warehouse robot workers, said today it has raised $34 million in early funding to accelerate the commercialization of its ...

Robots are showing up in more places than ever before. From hospitals to homes, workplaces to classrooms, machines with artificial intelligence are becoming part of everyday life. But even as they ...

SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- International market research and strategic consulting firm Yole Group, recently released its latest report titled "Humanoid Robots 2026: Market and ...

In Hefei, Anhui Province, robots are being trained at the Embodied Intelligent Robotics Data Collection Training Center, ...

Globally, just 13,317 humanoid robots shipped last year. That’s not very many, but it’s forecast to almost double each year over the next decade. Global humanoid robot shipments will hit 2.6 million ...

In real life, robots are pretty simple. They are just, like, an arm putting cars together or what have you. In movies and TV, though, robots have long been intelligent. They’ve had personalities. They ...