Musk and other tech gurus say human-like robots are the next big thing. Don’t hold your breath

Investors are pouring billions into companies pitching humanoid robots, but functional versions are decades away.

Breaking the humanoid robot delusion

Robot makers want us all to believe we’re on the brink of an autonomous humanoid robot revolution. But that’s just not true.

You can now order this robot butler, but there’s something you should know

The bipedal bot, which has been a decade in development, stands at 66 inches and tips the scales at 66 pounds. It ...
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TechMagic: Nvidia GTC, Shopping With a Robot, Samsung XR's Future, Bored Apes Are Back

A new study analyzing these halos found that they mimicked the most extreme environments on Earth—those near hydrothermal ...
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Here Come the Androids: Millions of Humanoid Robots Could Solve the Factory Labor Crunch

The report sites recent analysis by U.K. consultancy firm IDTechEx that predicts that some 1.6 million humanoid robots could be working in the automotive factory sector by 2035. U.S. Bureau of ...

This android video is so good I thought it was AI. It’s not

Enter AheadForm. The Chinese robotics firm recently shared a video (above) showing an astonishingly realistic humanoid head.
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This humanoid robot could help with labor gaps, its developers say

AEON, HUMANOID ROBOT: “My name is AEON. I'm a working humanoid from Zurich.” - to address what it says are worker shortages in various industries. The company, Hexagon, says AEON will start work ...

Humanoid robots can become instruments of peace

They would act not as instruments of war, but as intermediaries for peace — enforcing accountability through presence, not ...