Hyundai plans to deploy 30,000 humanoid robots by 2030. Union warns of 'employment shocks.'

The automaker's announcement sent shares to record highs, but its labor union says to hit the brakes.

These humanoid robots can only work half as fast as humans, but factories are buying them anyway

Even with those limitations, orders for the machines are accelerating. Manufacturers such as BYD and Foxconn, both partners ...

Will Humanoid Robots Take Over Your Smart Home?

Humanoid robots have been in development for years, but it may feel like they will never be accessible to regular users.
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Microsoft’s Rho-alpha lets robots obey plain commands far beyond factory work

Robots have long excelled at repetitive factory tasks, but they have struggled with the messy ambiguity of everyday human ...
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Swarms of mini robots that 'bloom' could lead to adaptive architecture

Nature is, of course, the master engineer—been there, seen it, solved it. While we struggle to design buildings that don't ...

We spoke to 3 robotics experts at Davos. They said this was the next big challenge for humanoid robots.

Three robotics experts said humanoid robots need to move beyond flashy demos to performing tasks that are actually useful in ...