Face down on a table in a skintight suit, I waited as the robot masseuse scanned my body with its four cameras. In just a few seconds, it collected 1.2 million data points and created a ...

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What is it with Warhammer games and adding more campaigns? Earlier this week, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 4 announced that, firstly, it exists and, secondly, that it has no fewer than four interwoven ...

In mid-August, Beijing’s National Speed Skating Oval – the “Ice Ribbon” built for the 2022 Winter Olympics – hosted a new kind of sporting event. For four days, more than 500 humanoid robots from 16 ...

We write a lot about vacuums here at NBC Select, so whether it’s a robot, upright or handheld model, we have an idea of what makes a good appliance. One of our favorite robot vacuum brands is Shark, ...

Another day, another humanoid robot breakthrough. While the U.S. and China have a growing number of firms developing cutting-edge humanoid robots — Boston Dynamics, Figure, Unitree, and EngineAI among ...

FieldAI, an Irvine, California-based robotics startup, has raised $405 million across multiple previously undisclosed rounds to develop what it calls “foundational embodied AI models” — essentially ...

Robots come in a vast array of shapes and sizes. By definition, they're machines that perform automatic tasks and can be operated by humans, but sometimes work autonomously—without human help. Most of ...

Modular robots built by Dartmouth researchers are finding their feet outdoors. Engineered to assemble into structures that best suit the task at hand, the robots are pieced together from cube-shaped ...

The Chinese robotics community hosted the World Humanoid Robot Games 2025 at the National Speed Skating Oval last week. The Ice Ribbon is located on Beijing’s Olympic Green. It was the main venue for ...

Performance is only part of the story. If you're ready to hand over lawn maintenance to a robot, these are the things to consider before letting one loose in your garden. I’ve contributed to PCMag ...