Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The history of robots in manufacturing goes back to 1962, when a 4,000-pound, one-armed ...

History is also littered with examples of complex automata designed to wow audiences with their life-like movements. But the word "robot" was first introduced by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in his ...

TL;DR: Elon Musk predicts widespread demand for Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots, aiming for 500,000 units by 2027. He envisions a future with a high robot-to-human ratio, potentially eliminating the ...

There’s a long history of robots taking jobs that are difficult enough for humans to resent, resist, or outright fear. But a new crop of bots is tackling tasks that even machines might calculate to be ...

It was only a matter of time before man made robots accessible to everyday people. That day seems to be here, with the announcement that Sprint stores will soon start selling a humanoid robot named ...

Warning! This article contains spoilers for The Electric State. Since The Electric State's opening sequence suggests that Walt Disney was the first to create robots, many viewers may be curious ...

In the 1950s, as Isaac Asimov’s Foundation short stories were fixed up into his Foundation novels, the author was dabbling with a different sci-fi continuity altogether, the future history of robots.