A local robotics team from the Western Cape celebrates their sixth consecutive national win and prepares to represent South Africa at the prestigious First Tech Challenge in Texas next month, ...

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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 ...

Last year, 21 humanoid robots squared up against each other in the World Humanoid Robot Games’ half marathon race in Beijing in an unintentionally hilarious debauchery of broken limbs, face plants — ...

Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...

When Elon Musk talks about robotics, he rarely hides the ambition behind the dream. Tesla’s Optimus is pitched as an all-purpose humanoid robot that can do the heavy lifting on factory floors and free ...

CES always brings robots – some useful, some confusing, some that feel like movie props that wandered into the wrong conference. In 2026, there’s a real shift: Robots aren’t trying to be sci-fi ...

Twenty-five years of the new millennium have passed and we’re still waiting for the futuristic world we were promised: Living in space, hover-cars, jet packs and extraterrestrial encounters. However, ...

This striking humanoid robot is the R1 from Robbyant, a company owned by Chinese tech giant Ant Group. The allure of humanoid robots is their versatility – you can imagine them doing any job that a ...

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet. By Meaghan Tobin and Xinyun Wu Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Robots made by Chinese ...

What’s keeping them off the street is a challenge robotics researchers have circled for decades. Building robots is easier than making them function in the real world. A robot can repeat a TikTok ...

Home robots are no longer a futuristic concept—they are becoming a tangible part of modern living. Advances in consumer robotics have made smart home robots more capable, intuitive, and affordable ...