Bill Whitaker: If you have a robot doing 99 percent of the work, where's the artistry? Giacomo Massari: In the idea. How you program the machine is a work of art because it's an artistic approach.

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.

VANCOUVER — Sanctuary AI announced its sixth-generation general-purpose robot named Phoenix™. Phoenix is the world’s first humanoid general-purpose robot powered by Carbon™, designed to ...

And the form factor with the robot is interesting. I think they're very early. Obviously, Elon likes to talk about things early in the cycle. You know, and so there's a lot of work to do here." ...

Some of the new humanoid robot designs are made to mimic a romantic partner. CNET, a tech publication, interviewed "Aria" from the company Realbotix at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show last month.

Robots have assisted surgeons for decades, but now they are being deployed to new areas of US hospitals as the healthcare industry grapples with an acute shortage of workers.

When the robots are not at work, they’ll be housed at UBC. During this time, Hung will be observing and recording the interactions between the residents, care staff and the robots.

This baby-faced robot is the Internet's latest object of ridicule. This adolescent-looking android is the first flying humanoid robot — but the internet is creeped out by how it looks.

Still, the robots are proliferating. Redwood City, California-based Bear Robotics introduced its Servi robot in 2021 and expects to have 10,000 deployed by the end of this year in 44 U.S. states ...

The robot kept its pace for more than 13 miles (21 kilometers). But it didn't do so on a single charge. Along the way, the robot had to stop and have its batteries swapped three times.