Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but human psychology and the uncanny valley may stand between them and world ...

But you can see the market appeal. A robot vacuum cleaner can’t climb stairs to clean an upstairs room. A robot arm that ...

One of the ways to illustrate how good a robot can be is to have it engage in fighting. Fighting requires the robot to ...

EngineAI's T-800 (yes, that's a Terminator designator) is perhaps the strongest robot on the planet. That's why, of course, ...

China’s UBTech Robotics scored one of the largest real-world humanoid deployment contracts in 2025, securing a US$37 million agreement to deploy its industrial humanoid robots, including the advanced ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I explore humans, technologies, and what’s next. Dec 01, 2025, 01:14pm EST As factories finalize 2026 budgets, a costly choice ...

Transformer mannequin at Ripley's Believe It or Not in London, 2020 (Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital) Would you welcome a robot into your home? Guess what: You probably already have. That’s if you use ...

For over half a century, humanoid robots have been a staple of science fiction. From C3PO to Data from Star Trek, or going even further back, the Robots series of books by Isaac Asimov. That’s cool ...

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We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving ...

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