Humanoid robots keep showing up in headlines, but many of the most innovative robots doing actual work neither resemble humans nor are built to be general-purpose replacements for them. Instead, companies are designing and building these more ...

Destiny can run, dance and even perform Kung Fu moves, and Wallace, from Gedling in Nottinghamshire, expects to see humanoids programmed to do laundry or cooking and cleaning. He describes the humanoid as an "embodied AI model with the ability to speak, react and manipulate the real world".

Breaking away from conventional robots that perform only predefined functions once fabricated, researchers have developed a next-generation artificial muscle that can change its shape in real time, recover from damage,

A student-led engineering club on the Polytechnic campus will travel to St. Louis, Missouri, in late April to compete in the 2026 VEX Robotics World Championship. The Rossum Rumblers Robotics Club works to create robots for various competitions, including VEX.

Researchers at Harvard have developed a fleet of "RAnts" that mirror the self-organizing genius of ant colonies to build and dismantle structures without central leadership.

Given all of the attention it’s been getting recently, robotics may seem like a brand-new industry. But two of the firms on our list have been around for decades—and one is a conglomerate of companies that date back to the 19th century. But there’s ...