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AI-powered robots are becoming increasingly integral to operations across industries. Long-running macroeconomic, geopolitical and demographic trends, exacerbated by recent events, make automation and ...

When Hyundai acquired the robotics giant Boston Dynamics in 2021, very few observers thought that using mechanical dogs to spot-check welds in car factories would be the endgame. Today, at CES 2026, ...

(Bloomberg) -- Hyundai Motor Co.’s Boston Dynamics unit unveiled the latest iteration of a humanoid robot designed to work in the carmaker’s manufacturing plants starting in 2028, including at a ...

Scientists have created a robot that learns lip movements by watching humans rather than following preset rules. The ...

The breakthrough, announced by Hugging Face co-founder Clément Delangue in a post on X, is the first commercially available open-source humanoid robot, news site Decrypt.co notes. In his X post ...

What happens to a social robot after it retires? Four years ago, we placed a small owl-shaped reading robot named Luka into 20 families’ homes. At the time, the children were preschoolers, just ...

Hyundai Motor's Boston Dynamics unit unveiled a new Atlas humanoid robot slated for deployment in Hyundai factories starting in 2028, including a plant in Savannah, Ga. Hyundai plans to initially use ...

Robot umpires are coming to the big leagues in 2026 after Major League Baseball's 11-man competition committee on Tuesday approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System. ABS will be introduced in ...

It’s not every day that a robot dog walks into the State Capitol. But at the first Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) Day, the University of New Haven turned heads with SPOT, the agile, ...

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