Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making bigger promises. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET.

Robots are rapidly moving beyond pre-programmed automation into a new era of adaptive, learning-driven autonomy. At the ...

When Elon Musk says Tesla will one day be worth more than Apple and Saudi Aramco combined, he’s not talking about electric cars. He’s talking about robots. At Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting, Musk ...

Imagine “hiring” a robot instead of buying one. That’s the core idea behind Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS), a business model that is rapidly transforming how companies adopt automation. Much like ...

For decades we’ve been trying to make the robots smarter and more physically capable by mimicking biological intelligence and movement. “But in doing so, we’ve been just replicating the results of ...