After a year-long pilot project, Toyota’s Canadian manufacturing subsidiary has contracted seven humanoid robots to work in a plant building RAV4 SUVs under a robots-as-a-service deal.

On September 25, 2025, Google DeepMind quietly released Gemini Robotics 1.5. To the casual observer, it may have seemed like ...

Last year, Norwegian-US tech company 1X announced a strange new product: "the world's first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform life at home." ...

Chinese humanoid robots are having a moment in the spotlight after a standout performance at the country's annual Spring ...

Uttar Pradesh Budget 2026–27 focuses on transforming population into productive human capital through AI training, robotics hubs, data centers, startup ecosystems, and women-led entrepreneurship. The ...

Wild orangutans in the Borneo rainforest have been observed washing themselves with soap – but researchers weren't sure why ...

In China, the company DroidUp has just unveiled Moya, a humanoid robot of astonishing realism. Equipped with integrated ...

A Shanghai-based robotics startup is going viral for its latest invention, a humanoid robot named ‘Moya’ that emits its own body heat.

The introduction of sex robots will certainly have some potentially negative consequences, but they may be balanced by a few ...

The New Scientist Book Club moved on from reading a classic piece science fiction in December – Iain M. Banks’s The Player of Games – to an award-winning sci-fi novel in January: Sierra Greer’s Annie ...

Artificial intelligence has been arguably the hottest topic of the decade thus far, and it's starting to feel like it's only a matter of time before we move beyond discussions of which AI chatbots are ...

In a nutshell: China's ambitious drive to automate its factories is running up against the physical and computational limits of current humanoid robots. Shenzhen-based UBTech Robotics, one of the ...