Powered by light and guided by ultra-low-energy computing, the robots show what autonomy looks like at the microscale.

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

Dressed in sensible Nordic knitwear, Bernt Bornich’s robotic manservant is more stylish than practical. Ask it to fetch a can of Coca-Cola from another room, and more often than not, something will ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Jonathan Reichental covers technology in business and society. Toy versions of the popular droids R2-D2 and BB-8, part of the ...

At the ATEC2025 Real-World Extreme Challenge, held at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), competing robots faced a ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate ...

Two robots picked up T-shirts with orange-tipped claws, then neatly folded and piled them. A cute companion robot with bright ...

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 are racing, fighting and falling over in a first-of-its-kind World Humanoid Robot Games event held in China. The Olympics-style competition features more than 500 robots from 16 ...

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, ...

Self-driving cars and electric vehicles tend to dominate global headlines, but some of the most consequential innovations in ...

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 ...