Figure AI said it had raised more than $1 billion in a funding round that valued the company at $39 billion, making it one of ...

SpaceX’s Elon Musk says he will rocket Optimus bots on the first Starships sent to Mars, but a leading robotics scholar ...

Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, the recent popularity of anti-robot lingo ...

A bee-like robot currently under development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is part of a new generation of bots inspired by creepy crawlies. The machine, which weighs less than a ...

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, ...

A South African woman showcased a R5k robot vacuum with a self-emptying feature & advanced navigation, sparking debate on its worthiness as a household investment.

As AI increasingly becomes a part of daily life, it's found a foothold in medical care — providing everything from ...

In August 2025, a rumor began to spread that a "pregnancy robot" was in development in China. Social media posts and articles circulated with different AI-generated images of such a robot, including ...