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TrendForce projects China's humanoid robot output will grow 94% year-on-year in 2025, marking a shift from R&D-focused development to commercial-scale production Unitree Robotics and Agibot together ...

A few short months ago, almost every robot made by the hundreds of companies working on humanoid robots could charitably be described as slow, topping out at around three mph. Walking was on the edge ...

Robots may be one of the greatest 21st-century inventions, but up until Oct. 28, you couldn’t purchase one to help out with daily household tasks, such as emptying the dishwasher or vacuuming your ...

Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the commercial boom in ...

North American robot orders rose in 2025, reflecting strong investment in automation across a range of industries. According to new data from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), companies ...

Amazon reportedly has a plan to replace more than half a million U.S. workers with “cobots,” and avoid hiring at least 160,000 human workers by 2027. Despite hoping to double the number of products ...

Humanoid robots are poised to enter warehouses, automotive factories and even some homes in growing numbers in 2025 – but whether they can really take hold remains to be seen. The machines in this new ...

What’s keeping them off the street is a challenge robotics researchers have circled for decades. Building robots is easier than making them function in the real world. A robot can repeat a TikTok ...

Jeff Bezos thinks the future is looking up — literally. While doomsayers warn artificial intelligence will end civilization, the Amazon and Blue Origin founder says the next 20 years will be a golden ...

A US Navy special operations veteran told BI that ground robots are helpful, but it's best to have more cheap one than fewer ...