Burmese pythons, one of the world’s largest snakes, are also one of the most problematic invasive species in South Florida.

The 'G1' bipedal robots have been developed by Unitree Robotics, a Chinese robotics company based in Hangzhou. Pictured at Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, May 20, 2025 ...

Not only do I have to redraw my mental image of those devices — I’d gotten comfortable with Robot from the 1960s TV show, “Lost in Space" — but there is also news that robots can now build ...

Later this year, Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work in a Hyundai factory. The new version of the bot, evolved from the hydraulic Atlas model that’s been ...

Joe Atikian is the author of Industrial Shift: The Structure of the New World Economy. The robots are not coming for our jobs. In 1915, the industrialist Lloyd Raymond Smith asked, “Can ...

Editor’s note: “Musk Is All In on Robots: Why You Should Be, Too” was previously published in June 2025 with the title, “The Robot Elon Musk Thinks Will Be Bigger Than the iPhone.” ...

Origin of the word "robot"': The 1920 play "Rossum's Universal Robots," by Karel Čapek The first robot: Unimate, created in 1954 by American George Devol The largest humanoid robot: Mononofu, a ...

They define what robots can do. A rescue robot with a 45-minute battery might not last long enough to complete a search. A farm robot that pauses to recharge every hour can’t harvest crops in time.