Figure AI, a startup based in San Jose, California, has drawn attention in recent months for its sleek, humanlike black-and-gray robots doing basic tasks like folding laundry and putting away ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Robots have long been the backbone of manufacturing—welding car frames, assembling ...

More than 500 humanoid robots and thousands of spectators traveled to Beijing over the weekend for a sporting event straight out of a science fiction film: the first-of-its-kind World Humanoid Robot ...

Humanoid robots raced and punched their way through three days of a multi-sport competition at the World Humanoid Robot Games, wrapping up Sunday in Beijing. But they also toppled, crashed and ...

When a robotics pioneer who has spent decades building humanoid machines recommends that you stand at least nine feet away from any full-size walking robot, you should probably listen. “My advice to ...

The company behind ChatGPT is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears to be hiring roboticists who work specifically on humanoids. The company has ...