SALEM, Ore. — In an office park opposite an Amazon warehouse, the robots are at work. A trio of six-foot-tall machines with ostrichlike legs and two jointed arms work in shifts, walking off a charging ...

Companies building humanoid robots are all the rage these days. Elon Musk is promising to sell enough motion-capture-trained Optimus bots to make up the vast majority of Tesla's value, while a company ...

We tend to get fixated on realizing certain contraptions from science fiction, no matter how impractical. Flying cars. Jet packs. And now, humanoid robots. Yet few of these promised robots have ...

The sci-fi genre has long been one of the most thought-provoking and consistently popular in modern fiction. There are many staples of the genre that have come to define sci-fi for audiences, ...

Rapid advances in generative AI are accelerating the commercialization of humanoid robots, with 2025 projected as the industry's first year of mass production. Taiwanese PCB makers—Zhen Ding ...

In 2025, the Jetsons fantasy of a robot butler stopped feeling like retro-sci fi kitsch and started looking—if you squint through a teleoperator’s VR headset—almost plausible. Meanwhile, investors ...

For decades, humanoid robots have lived behind safety cages in factories or deep inside research labs. Fauna Robotics, a New York-based robotics startup, says that era is ending. The company has ...

Roundhill Investments is preparing to launch a new thematic exchange traded fund aimed at the fast-evolving field of robotics. According to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange ...