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

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

Tesla's Optimus is pitched as an all-purpose humanoid robot that can do the heavy lifting on factory floors and free us from ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed ...

Foundation’s Phantom robot might be built to fight and die, and Figure’s 03 humanoid robot is probably the smoothest, most agile robot I’ve seen in running, turning, and moving, but EngineAI’s T800 – ...