In mid-August, Beijing’s National Speed Skating Oval – the “Ice Ribbon” built for the 2022 Winter Olympics – hosted a new kind of sporting event. For four days, more than 500 humanoid robots from 16 ...

Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot doing training routines, or the latest humanoids from Figure loading a washing machine, and it’s easy to believe the robot revolution is here. From the outside, it ...

I’ve worked at the bleeding edge of robotics innovation in the United States for almost my entire professional life. Never before have I seen another country advance so quickly. In the span of the ...

Robot makers want us all to believe we’re on the brink of an autonomous humanoid robot revolution. But that’s just not true. Call it 'faith-based innovation.' A Silicon Valley company called 1X this ...

Noetix’s N2 robot walks the catwalk at the UNESCO venue in Paris on Oct. 8, 2025. Noetix’s N2 robot walks the catwalk at the UNESCO venue in Paris on Oct. 8, 2025.Courtesy: Emma Meng Editor at Large ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. While Elon Musk plans a Tesla bot factory in Silicon Valley, Chinese companies like Unitree Robotics are already ...