A humanoid robot walks alongside uniformed police officers during what appeared to be a public patrol in China.

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The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet. By Meaghan Tobin and Xinyun Wu Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Robots made by Chinese ...

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 ...

Hello again, and thank you for spending time with Fast Company’s Plugged In. Last October, I visited the Silicon Valley headquarters of 1X Technologies—the startup behind a humanoid home robot called ...

Rodney Brooks, famous for the Roomba, argues the humanoid robot craze in Silicon Valley is doomed to fail. Rodney Brooks, famous for the Roomba, argues the humanoid robot craze in Silicon Valley is ...

Watch Tesla's Optimus robot fall over while removing a phantom headset. Credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images A bizarre video of one of Tesla's Optimus robots appearing to malfunction and ...

In the future, a caregiving machine might gently lift an elderly person out of bed in the morning and help them get dressed. A cleaning bot could trundle through a child’s room, picking up scattered ...

A new video surfacing from a Tesla demonstration in Miami this weekend shows the Optimus humanoid robot taking a nasty fall. But it’s not the fall itself that is raising eyebrows, it’s the specific ...

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This robot was designed to do your house chores, but a remote human operator might be helping it finish them. Connor is a technology writer and editor, with a byline on multiple platforms. He has been ...