The goal is to get the robots working with actual humans in areas such as manufacturing, facility operations and health care.

Watch Figure AI's humanoid robot flawlessly sort packages for a full hour, showcasing precision, speed, and real-world industrial potential.

See new human-shaped robots, including MIMA’s skill-glove training for dishes and laundry, so you can gauge real home-ready progress.

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition humans learn through experience

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, Mr. Brooks’s co-founder and C.E.O. at Robust.AI, which is building automated carts to work alongside humans in distribution centers.

Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making bigger promises.

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate cluttered spaces and sort thousands of parcels an hour. But ask a robot to touch something gently,

Now, however, Stanford researchers have used artificial intelligence to steer a free-flying robot aboard the International Space Station (ISS), potentially paving the way for more