Robots are becoming part of our everyday lives, from health care to home assistance. But for humans to truly trust and ...

China’s UBTech Robotics scored one of the largest real-world humanoid deployment contracts in 2025, securing a US$37 million agreement to deploy its industrial humanoid robots, including the advanced ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

California startups are building robots to help with fold laundry and other tedious tasks as the race to dominate artificial intelligence intensifies against countries such as China.

If you’ve always been one to scoff at the idea of a robot uprising, then this story out of China might give you pause for thought. It’s about what is apparently the first-ever humanoid robot that’s ...

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

The top 7 must-read stories from Interesting Engineering cover humanoids that box, lasers to kill mosquitoes, and even an ...