The winning time is a massive improvement over last year’s race, when the fastest robot finished in two hours and 40 minutes.

Walker S2 is an adult-sized humanoid robot with legs, a torso, and arms. China is sending these robots to patrol their border with Vietnam.

The robots are on trial as the companies operate under a pilot program that expires in May 2027. Chicago’s City Council would need to take action to allow the robots to stay in Chicago after next spring.

While real dogs still have a major leg up over robots, the machines are catching up. Popular Science previously highlighted a company called Glide that sells a vacuum cleaner shaped mobility aid that uses AI and passive kinetic guidance to help people with impaired vision navigate.

After a historic first, communications and navigation still obstruct the future for roboticized ground assault.

By Siddarth S April 15 (Reuters) - Autonomous food delivery robots and drones could cut costs by several dollars to as low as $1 per order, a shift that could unlock billions of dollars in profits for the global food delivery industry,

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world.

The naysayers don't like the threat to jobs and consider the robots a sidewalk nuisance, while others don't want to stop technological progress and say the robots actually are safer than alternatives.

Ukrainian ground robots and drones have demonstrated how to overcome a Russian military position by themselves while forcing the surrender of Russian soldiers, claimed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Automation and robotics are rapidly transforming renewable energy development by accelerating construction, reducing costs, and addressing critical labor shortages.

They may seem like scenes out of a slapstick comedy, but viral robot mishaps are no laughing matter — experts even warn they could foreshadow a “Terminator”-level apocalypse. A humanoid dance bot was recently performing for patrons at the Haidilao hotpot restaurant in San Jose,