Otis developed APIs allowing autonomous robots to communicate with and navigate elevators in commercial buildings.

Amazon's Black Friday sale features significant discounts on robot vacuums, with savings up to 58% off. Top brands like iRobot, Shark, and Ecovacs are included in the sale event. Black Friday 2025 is ...

Unitree launches the world’s first robot app store, letting developers and users download skills for humanoid robots and ushering in the app era of physical AI.

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We’ve officially reached the point where humanoid robots are so lifelike that people are second-guessing their true nature. Chinese car manufacturer Xpeng has just unveiled its Next-Gen Iron robot, ...

When the Next-Gen Iron humanoid was unveiled to the public earlier this month, strutting fluidly down the runway before a gobsmacked audience, it made headlines – but not for the reasons its creators ...

While not 100% hands-free, it's miles ahead of where robot vacuums were only a few years ago.

Tech titans from Elon Musk to SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son have envisioned humanoid robots working next to people in factories, schools and homes. Realizing that future will require humanoid makers to ...

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The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), better known as robots.txt, has been around since 1994. Even though it was only officially adopted as a standard in 2022, using a robots.txt file has been a core ...