Robots-for-rent is one way some small U.S. factories gain access to automation, reducing turnover and ensuring workers aren’t injured. Automating the most arduous and repetitive jobs, like lifting and ...

Kartikeya Walia does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Martínez, a 37-year-old Cuban accused of beheading a motel manager in Dallas in front of his wife and son, acknowledges ...

John McCormick receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Robots come in a vast array of shapes and sizes. By definition, they’re machines that perform automatic tasks and can be operated ...

More than 500 humanoid robots and thousands of spectators traveled to Beijing over the weekend for a sporting event straight out of a science fiction film: the first-of-its-kind World Humanoid Robot ...

Chinese scientists have reportedly unveiled plans for the world’s first humanoid robot capable of carrying a pregnancy to term. Led by Dr. Zhang Qifeng of Kaiwa Technology in Guangzhou, the project is ...

In a development that completely demolished the line between robotics and reproductive science, China’s Kaiwa Technology made headlines this week for saying it had introduced humanoid robots equipped ...

Bizarre imagery flooded newsfeeds this week as word spread about a new "pregnancy robot" in development in China. The images featured plump human babies curled inside the bellies of chrome-plated ...

This robot surrogate was presented at the 2025 World Robot Conference in Beijing, revealing a full-sized humanoid that can replicate the entire process, from conception to delivery. It sounds ...

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 ...