Humanoid home robots are being marketed as the missing link between smart speakers and science fiction, promising to load dishwashers, tidy living rooms, and maybe even keep you company. The price tag ...

Robotics company SwitchBot has launched its first humanoid robot, Onero H1, a household robot designed to address difficult-to-automate household tasks at CES 2026. The robot is a part of a unified AI ...

In 2025, the Jetsons fantasy of a robot butler stopped feeling like retro-sci fi kitsch and started looking—if you squint through a teleoperator’s VR headset—almost plausible. Meanwhile, investors ...

Rock band Coheed and Cambria's drummer Josh Eppard shakes Robonaut 2's hand at NASA's Johnson Space Center In Houston, Texas - Sept. 17th, 2014 NASA astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted this photo of ...

A dozen or so young men and women, eyes obscured by VR headsets, shuffle around a faux kitchen inside a tech company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Their arms are bent at the elbows, palms facing down ...

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