Previously a contributor to Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, and US News. Robot vacuums that can both mop and sweep your floors have improved significantly in recent years. While they are still not as ...

The Unitree G1 has been charming people at trade shows It's a bright spring morning in Hanover, Germany, and I'm on my way to meet a robot. I have been invited to see the G1, a humanoid robot ...

Another did so a few steps later. A third quickly ran into a railing. Still, the remaining 18 humanoid robots taking part in a Beijing half-marathon on April 19th leapt, skipped or trundled ...

In addition to about 12,000 living, breathing runners, this race also welcomed 21 humanoid robots to its start line. This half marathon, which took place in Beijing’s high-tech manufacturing hub ...

Musk said the rare earth magnets are needed for the arm of the robots in order to allow the machine powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to fit in small spaces. China has approximately 44 ...

On Tesla’s conference call Tuesday, Musk offered up new timelines for developments ranging from robot production to autonomous rides. Those comments, which included a pledge to spend less time ...

Step aside Cleatus (that football robot mascot you’ve seen on NFL broadcasts over the years), because Hasbro has partnered with the NFL for a collection of Transformers figures that can be ...

On one side: three dudebros in their early 20s. On the other: a pair of 3-foot-tall black-and-white Dax security robots. The robots sternly inform the men they’re trespassing on the IDEA Tempe ...

China’s halt this month on exports of magnets containing heavy rare earth metals has affected Tesla’s plans to manufacture Optimus robots. By Keith Bradsher Reporting from Shanghai Elon Musk ...

A robot sorts lug nuts before attaching wheels to electric cars at a Zeekr plant in Ningbo, China.Credit...Qilai Shen for The New York Times Supported by By Keith Bradsher Keith Bradsher ...

and by combining these modules in different ways the researchers behind this work have found applications across a range of fields, from lightweight dancing robots to mechanical computing.