Humanoid robots promise to reshape warehouses and factories. But their joints fail fast. Actuators, the motors and gears powering every bend and stride, crack under the relen...
Hyundai Motor Group isn't waiting for perfection. The automaker, which snapped up an 80% stake in Boston Dynamics for $1.1 billion in 2021, now wants tens of thousands of its...
Factories that once churned out components for Apple iPhones and Xiaomi flagships now hum with a different purpose. Precision motors. Sensors. Liquid-cooling systems. These part...
On a dusty ranch south of Austin, a cable-suspended machine named Terry grabs fist-sized clumps of local clay. It swings them precisely onto rising walls. Then it swaps tools. A...
Tokyo's Haneda Airport, gateway for over 60 million passengers yearly, faces a new worker on the apron. Japan Airlines Ground Service, or JGS, kicks off trials next month with C...
A bright-red humanoid robot named Flash crossed the finish line at Beijing's E-Town Half-Marathon on April 19, 2026, clocking 50 minutes and 26 seconds for 13.1 miles. That's...
Robots flail. They freeze. Or they crash into their own limits. That's the reality when engineers try to port a skill from one arm to another. Different joint lengths. Varyin...
Two Serve Robotics delivery bots rolled straight into a tense police standoff in Hollywood last week. They stopped inches from emergency responders tending to a man in mental...
By 2030, half of all new warehouses in developed markets will open as robot-centric facilities. Humans? Optional for routine work. That's the stark forecast from...
A robotic arm swings with mechanical grace. It smacks the ball back across the net. Elite players sweat. Sony's Ace just won another point.In Tokyo labs, this isn't sp...
A robotic arm swings. The ping-pong ball rockets back across the net at 16 meters per second, spinning at 600 radians per second. An elite player lunges. Misses.Sony A...
Elon Musk envisions a world where humanoid robots don't just toil in factories. They remake society. Abundance for all. Penthouses for everyone who wants one. This isn't...
Machines don't tire. They don't question orders. Or bleed out in the mud. As conflicts rage and cities simmer, China and Ukraine push robots into roles once held by flesh and bo...
A bright-red humanoid named Lightning surged across the finish line in Beijing's E-Town on April 19, 2026. It clocked 50 minutes and 26 seconds for the 21-kilometer course. T...