Humanoid robots are rapidly transitioning from controlled demonstrations to practical deployments across homes, worksites, and public stages. April 2026 saw milestones ranging from China's first claimed real-home service robot deployment to record-breaking ...

When researchers asked more than 1,000 Americans to assign colors to robots according to the robot’s job, they found that biases familiar from the human workplace resurfaced—and that the people

An artificial intelligence (AI) has surpassed human players not only in Go, chess, and StarCraft but finally in a "real-world sport." Sony AI's table tennis robot "Ace" defeated elite players in a match adhering to International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) rules,

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, April 21 (Reuters) - Humanoid machines slowly picked up litter and sorted out bouquets of flowers on Tuesday in a demonstration of how robots might eventually be used to complete fiddly household tasks.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at MIT created an AI-powered simulator capable of generating limitless, realistic training data for robots. The system, named LucidSim, uses AI-generated images to train a ...

Tesla's groundbreaking Optimus Robot made its first-ever appearance inside a listed $6.85 million home in Los Angeles, creating a buzz with more than 9 million views on social media. Josh Spooner and Todd from LA Light Tesla’s latest innovation, the ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out. We have heard about robots taking over since science ...