Robots that mimic humans are set to create a $5 trillion market. But it will take years and a lot of improvements to get ...

Humanoid robot startups are raising massive funding rounds, and the sales pitch is familiar. Human-shaped machines will soon ...

Despite billions of dollars in investment, startups say their androids can only perform simple tasks.

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

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 ...

Weave Robotics, the California startup behind the laundry-folding robot, has started placing robots in laundromats. Former ...

Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making bigger promises. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET.

Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the commercial boom in ...

What’s keeping them off the street is a challenge robotics researchers have circled for decades. Building robots is easier than making them function in the real world. A robot can repeat a TikTok ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and "boring, honestly," says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors -- too complicated, capital-intensive and "boring, honestly," says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui.