As humanoid robots move from labs to workplaces, safety is becoming the biggest challenge. Here's how firms are working to ...

For generations, baseball has followed a simple rule. The umpire calls balls and strikes, and that call stands. That changes now. This season, Major League Baseball is introducing something that once ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Robot umpires are getting called up to the big leagues next season. Major League Baseball's 11-man competition committee on Tuesday approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System in ...

In a world where self-driving robotaxis glide through major city streets without drivers behind the wheel and delivery drones ...

AGIBOT World Challenge 2026 tested embodied AI on real robots, with 526 teams competing across reasoning, action, and world-model benchmarks.

Why can’t a robot do the dishes? Well, it can, but maybe not as well or as cheaply as we’d hoped. More than once, I have started a robotics article with an appeal to the Jetsons tv show of the late ...

As The BBC reports, this year’s competition has been viewed as a much greater success than 2015’s inaugural event. Amazon hosts the contest to help it realize new technologies that could be put to use ...

Aspiring engineers from 191 countries gathered in Panama City in October to compete in the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge. The annual contest aims to foster problem-solving, cooperation, and inspire ...

Humanoid robots competed in a live penalty shootout at MWC26 Shanghai, showing progress and limits in embodied AI, balance, ...

The Triton Robotics team, back row from left: Griffin Fisher, Tenzin Larkin, Thomas Gust, Simon Hajduk, Theo Lipson. Front row from left: Miles Lipson, Emi Enoki. (Triton Robotics Photo) A team of ...