As humanoid robots enter factories and warehouses, companies are developing new AI, sensors, and engineering safeguards 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Starship Technologies is redeploying 1,200 delivery robots from U.S. college campuses to grocery delivery, but crowded city ...