There’s something ominous about robots taking over jobs that humans are suited to do. Maybe you don’t want a job turning a wrench or pushing a broom, but someone does. But then there are the jobs no ...

In fact, the ancient Greek writer Homer described "intelligent machines" such as wheeled tripod machines in "The Iliad" aro ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognize objects, navigate ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

But you can see the market appeal. A robot vacuum cleaner can’t climb stairs to clean an upstairs room. A robot arm that ...

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Imagine for a moment that you're in an auto factory. A robot and a human are working next to each other on the production line. The robot is busy rapidly assembling car doors while the human runs ...

Courtney doesn’t have eyes, but it’s got sensors everywhere. There are two blinking lights on the front of its boxy body to approximate wide, moony pupils. It’s been described as a “large cooler on ...

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet.

AgiBot, a humanoid robotics company based in Shanghai, has engineered a way for two-armed robots to learn manufacturing tasks through human training and real-world practice on a factory production ...

The sparrow robot is able to pick up unpackaged items to sort them at Amazon's BOS27 Robotics Innovation Hub in Westborough, Massachusetts on November 10, 2022. - Nothing is a matter of chance at ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I explore humans, technologies, and what’s next. Dec 01, 2025, 01:14pm EST As factories finalize 2026 budgets, a costly choice ...