New companies are building robots in record time ... and at record cost. Massive changes have made physical AI — giving AI a body — much more affordable.

Honor Teases ‘Robot Phone’ Blending AI, Robotics, and Next-Gen Imaging Your email has been sent Chinese tech brand Honor is charting new territory with the reveal of its Robot Phone, a next-generation ...

Anton Glance, co-founder and CTO at Buildroid AI, has more than 10 years of experience in AI, robotics, automation, and ...

AgiBot, a humanoid robotics company based in Shanghai, has engineered a way for two-armed robots to learn manufacturing tasks through human training and real-world practice on a factory production ...

We saw the first real wave of AI-powered toys in 2025, some of which lacked proper safety guardrails. But we already know of ...

A dozen or so young men and women, eyes obscured by VR headsets, shuffle around a faux kitchen inside a tech company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Their arms are bent at the elbows, palms facing down ...

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The heat of the ongoing AI boom has spilled over to a famously difficult hardware space — humanoid robotics. Forbes has learned that a pair of Silicon Valley ventures, each with more than $100 million ...

XPENG has taken a major step into the future of mobility and artificial intelligence with the unveiling of its latest technologies at the 2025 XPENG AI Day, themed “Emergence.” Held at XPENG Science ...

Chinese EV maker XPeng has unveiled its next-generation IRON humanoid robot at the 2025 XPeng Tech Day, calling it “the most human-like humanoid robot.” The IRON robot features a bionic ...

Why This Is Important: The reason this is such a game-changer is that most robots are one-trick ponies. A walking robot gets stuck if it needs to cross water. Why Should I Care: This isn’t just about ...

The idea of a single robot that can transform into three different machines sounds like science fiction, but it is already ...