With stats like that, one can’t help but suspect that the first country to have a million humanoids will be China.

At CES 2026, humanoid robotics company Realbotix publicly demonstrated what it described as one of the first fully autonomous ...

Many researchers agree that there has been a step change in humanoid capability over the past five years, owing to cheaper ...

When Elon Musk talks about robotics, he rarely hides the ambition behind the dream. Tesla's Optimus is pitched as an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Jonathan Reichental covers technology in business and society. Toy versions of the popular droids R2-D2 and BB-8, part of the ...

Humanoid robot companies employ armies of human operators to train their machines by doing tasks like squatting and washing ...

Humans are desperate to put the robots to work. The only problem is, the robots don’t “work” to any degree. These humanoid ...

New framework syncs robot lip movements with speech, supporting 11+ languages and enhancing humanlike interaction.

A robot face developed by researchers can now lip sync speech and songs after training on YouTube videos, using machine ...

Twenty-five years of the new millennium have passed and we’re still waiting for the futuristic world we were promised: Living in space, hover-cars, jet packs and extraterrestrial encounters. However, ...