At the recent World Humanoid Robot Games 2026 in Beijing, robots sprinted, boxed, played football and tackled tasks inspired by factories, restaurants ...

Footage from Tianjin, China shows a robot carefully folding and assembling a flat parcel box using its mechanical arm on April 20. The developer attempts to interfere with the robot mid-task to test ...

A robot has learned to bowl, fold towels, unscrew lids, pour drinks, and prepare fresh orange juice by first imitating human demonstrations and then refining its skills through autonomous learning.

In the race to bring autonomous robots into the home, Sunday Robotics says it has solved one of the field's hardest problems: getting a robot to work in homes and handle objects it has never seen ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Before Silicon Valley's robots take over, they have to learn to fold your underwear. In recent months, ...

Pull a shirt out of the laundry pile, smooth it, fold in the sleeves, halve it, then halve it again, gently form it into a square and stack it in the drawer. How many times do you repeat this process ...