When Ai Lin bought his first humanoid robot last year, he wasn’t thinking about how it could make his life easier by doing his dishes. He instead rented it out.

X has unveiled touch-sensing robotic hands for its NEO humanoid, aiming to overcome one of the biggest barriers facing practical home robots.

AI companions can alleviate loneliness and provide emotional support without judgment. However, continuous reliance on these systems may negatively impact social skills. Researchers caution that overly agreeable AI might reduce empathy and critical thinking abilities.

Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough said the robot could become a new tool for crime scene mapping and patrolling

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented data, weak metadata, slow pipelines, and poor data ...

Google-backed Apptronik unveiled a new robot training facility on Tuesday, betting that large-scale ​real-world data collection will accelerate the commercialization ‌of humanoid robots.

A scientist who worked on Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot is now building a rival of his own — in Europe, not Silicon Valley. Rémi Cadène, co-founder and CEO of Paris-based startup UMA, unveiled plans for a lightweight humanoid robot called Northstar ...

Shanghai-based Agibot is probably the largest humanoid robot maker in the world. The company shipped roughly 5,100 units in 2025 — a 39% share of the global market — and crossed 10,000 cumulative units earlier this year, surpassing its first three-year ...

The race to build humanoid robots is accelerating from science fiction to industrial reality. RBC Capital Markets expect the market to grow into a $9 trillion opportunity by 2050, once software, services,