Control the lamp naturally, using gestures in the air. Everybody loves Pixar’s beloved toy-lamp mascot, Luxo Jr., right? Apple just made a new lamp-like robot prototype that looks super similar. The ...

Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot may have skipped the inaugural “robot Olympics” in China last week, but that doesn’t mean the engineers behind the machine have been sitting around watching the world ...

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 ...

Those of you who are familiar with Yukai Engineering, a Japanese startup, know that you can expect odd products from the company. Well, Mirumi kind of belongs in that category, the company’s fluffy ...

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

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The future of robotics is here—and it’s deeply unsettling. A startup called Clone Robotics ...

TL;DR: Apple is developing a robot with lifelike movements, resembling a desk lamp, capable of interacting with users through gestures and tasks like providing lighting for photography or projecting ...

On January 7, Realbotix made a splash at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with their life-sized AI robot. They had several on hand, with different looks and names, including their ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

If you’re designing a robot for a specific purpose, you’re probably ordering fresh parts and going with a clean sheet design. If you’re just building for fun though, you can just go with whatever ...

A short clip of an Optimus robot at a Tesla autonomy event in Miami over the weekend is going viral. That’s because the robot appears to try to take a headset it’s not wearing off before going ...

Chris Sanders is a one-of-a-kind artist. As a kid, looking through various “art of” books for the 1990s Disney classics, you could always pick out a Chris Sanders illustration or a Chris Sanders ...