A robot face developed by researchers can now lip sync speech and songs after training on YouTube videos, using machine ...

At around the same time as Europol was predicting robo-geddon, meanwhile, another disturbing new report claimed to provide figures showing that AI was already linked to 50,000 global job losses in ...

When Elon Musk talks about robotics, he rarely hides the ambition behind the dream. Tesla's Optimus is pitched as an ...

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Not being a sex robot myself, I had to take an imaginative leap to write from the perspective of Annie in my novel Annie Bot. Because the book is written in the third person, not the first, Annie ...

Humanoid robots take center stage at Silicon Valley summit By Matt O'Brien Associated Press Jan 2, 2026 0 A man records a humanoid robot inside the exhibition room at the Humanoids Summit on Dec. 11 ...

Humanoid robots spent 2025 straddling a strange line between breakthrough and blooper reel. They poured lattes, posed in ...

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Abstract: Maintaining robust standing stability is critical for humanoid robots performing precision manipulation tasks, where traditional balance strategies (e.g., stepping) can disrupt task ...

LG Electronics plans to showcase the newest member of the LG CLOi robot family, the LG CLOiD humanoid robot, at CES 2026 next week in Las Vegas. The company hasn’t shown any full-body views of the ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — 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 ...

Ahead of CES 2026, Roborock has dropped a new teaser for its upcoming hardware. While not much is shown, the image of a ball rolling down stairs suggests this could be the next challenge the company ...