The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet. By Meaghan Tobin and Xinyun Wu Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Robots made by Chinese ...

Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making bigger promises. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET.

What’s keeping them off the street is a challenge robotics researchers have circled for decades. Building robots is easier than making them function in the real world. A robot can repeat a TikTok ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. This Phantom humanoid robot by Foundation is working in a factory. Some of them, however, ...

Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but what we use them for partly depends on answers to very human questions: Do we trust them? Do we like them? According to one prediction, the mass-adoption ...

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Pacman is chased by Huggy Wuggy, but he finds a hairball that transforms him to Cartoon Cat. Now Huggy Wuggy tries to escape, but Spiky Robot Pacman appears... Thanks for watching! #pacman #cartooncat ...

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This robot was designed to do your house chores, but a remote human operator might be helping it finish them. Connor is a technology writer and editor, with a byline on multiple platforms. He has been ...

Artificial Intelligence may prove to be a more significant milestone than the harnessing of fire, or the invention of the wheel. It's the fastest-evolving technology the world has ever seen, with the ...

Robotics companies have converted the pages of science fiction books into real life, as artificial intelligence-powered humanoid machines are in the early stages of development. The industry is ...