A child with a new cochlear implant works on auditory rehabilitation exercises at home in Toulouse, France, aided by Pepper, a human-looking robot. In Canada, another child interacts with Pepper, who ...

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

As we look back at the year 2025, it’s evident that humanoid robots have increasingly become a pivotal part of ...

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 ...

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As humanoid robots move from labs into homes, stores, and warehouses, a simple question is gaining urgency: who teaches them ...

CES 2026 highlighted a trend growing over the past few years: The humanoid robots era. What would previously be announcements of fast quadruped robots, dog-like machines running around that would make ...

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