“As fun as real-life rock-em-sock-em robots is, what people really care about is robots doing their chores,” Holson, who currently leads robotics for Robust AI, says. “This is why robot laundry folding videos are so popular. Those laundry videos are ...

What is in the pipeline? Humanoid robots that can obey commands, make decisions, and deftly perform manual tasks have long been a sci-fi fantasy. Now they are becoming reality. Artificial intelligence, coupled with advances in robotics, has the potential ...

Going into 2026, it is important to note that the accelerated growth seen in the robotics industry has been against a backdrop of uncertain political policies and high cost of capital.

Unitree G1 humanoid robot KOID told CNBC that "only time will tell" if the AI boom is actually a bubble. KOID is manufactured by Unitree, one of China's hottest tech companies, and the Nvidia-powered robot shares a name with an ETF launched in June by ...

Autonomous robots are moving beyond scripted motions and narrow task automation into a new era of adaptable, environment-aware intelligence. At

NEW YORK -- As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand with its grippers, it looks nothing like the sleek and intimidating humanoids built by companies like Tesla.

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. For decades, engineers have been trying to create robots that look ...