HONOR is about to make a surprising entrance at Mobile World Congress 2026 with something no one expected from a phone brand: ...

The debut of the robot butler NEO has drawn widespread ridicule. Unable to perform many chores without a remote human operator, the machine has become a target of social media backlash. Videos ...

Robotics company SwitchBot has launched its first humanoid robot, Onero H1, a household robot designed to address difficult-to-automate household tasks at CES 2026. The robot is a part of a unified AI ...

Despite huge technical progress, these robots are still clumsy at handling everyday tasks in homes or hospitals or other ...

Humanoid robot startups are raising massive funding rounds, and the sales pitch is familiar. Human-shaped machines will soon step into warehouses and factories, and then eventually our homes. But the ...

In 2025, the Jetsons fantasy of a robot butler stopped feeling like retro-sci fi kitsch and started looking—if you squint through a teleoperator’s VR headset—almost plausible. Meanwhile, investors ...

Humanoid home robots are being marketed as the missing link between smart speakers and science fiction, promising to load dishwashers, tidy living rooms, and maybe even keep you company. The price tag ...

Rock band Coheed and Cambria's drummer Josh Eppard shakes Robonaut 2's hand at NASA's Johnson Space Center In Houston, Texas - Sept. 17th, 2014 NASA astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted this photo of ...

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the ...

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