Read TIME's exclusive feature on the Figure 03 here. The Figure 03 is a humanoid robot with a lofty goal. The company that makes it, Figure AI, wants to build a machine in the form of a human being, ...

More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

The future of Tesla is an army of humanoid robots that Elon Musk says could eliminate poverty and the need for work. He has told investors the robots could generate “infinite” revenue for Tesla and ...

On the outskirts of Beijing, young Chinese entrepreneur Cheng Hao sits on an indoor soccer pitch – but this turf isn’t for humans. It’s where engineers working for his start-up, Booster Robotics, ...

Footage circulating this week from the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen shows a humanoid robot walking alongside uniformed police officers during what appeared to be a public patrol, highlighting ...

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If you start watching Mr. Robot on Netflix at exactly 11:48:06 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, you can hear Rami Malek say “Fuck society” in the pilot episode just as 2025 comes to an end. This feels like a ...

Unitree G1 humanoid robot KOID told CNBC that "only time will tell" if the AI boom is actually a bubble. KOID is manufactured by Unitree, one of China's hottest tech companies, and the Nvidia-powered ...

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The firm says the milestone highlights advanced robotics moving from prototypes to scalable, real-world industrial use.UBTECH Robotics/YouTube Chinese robotics player UBTECH has marked a major ...

LG Electronics plans to showcase the newest member of the LG CLOi robot family, the LG CLOiD humanoid robot, at CES 2026 next week in Las Vegas. The company hasn’t shown any full-body views of the ...