In December 2025, pillars of the robotics community faced difficult times, industry leaders took new positions, and new robot ...

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We’ll be going into 2026 with both optimism and skepticism, and we’ll keep doing what we always do: talking to the experts, ...

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, Mr. Brooks’s co-founder and C.E.O. at Robust.AI, which is building automated ...

Meet Sparrow, Cardinal and Proteus. They’re the robots that, step by step, are replacing human workers in the company’s warehouses. By Karen Weise Karen Weise reported from Shreveport, La., and has ...

After spending most of their careers in academia, Andrea Thomaz and Vivian Chu began exploring how robots could be used in real-world, human-centered work environments. Supported by Thomaz’s role at ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world's smallest fully programmable ...

The world of technology is ever-evolving, with dynamic shifts towards automation and artificial intelligence. Tesla, a pioneer in electric vehicles and autonomous technology, has been at the forefront ...

Biomimetic marching robot brings Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" to life If you want to build an actual HAL 9000, all you need is an LED, some carpentry skills, and any laptop accessing a talking ...

A dozen or so young men and women, eyes obscured by VR headsets, shuffle around a faux kitchen inside a tech company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Their arms are bent at the elbows, palms facing down ...