Jesus chatbots aren't the only AI technologies seeping into religious practice. Some worshippers don't agree with the use of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I test robot vacuums for a living. These tips and tricks will help keep your new home helper running better and for longer. Alan Bradley CNET Contributor Alan Bradley is an experienced commerce, tech ...

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 the past few decades, China has rapidly transitioned from one of the poorest nations on Earth to the global kingpin in robotics production. Between 2022 and 2023, the People's Republic installed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...