Automation is getting a little out of control these days. Recent advances in the world of robotics have unleashed autonomous bodegas, sock-puppet style robo-servants, and even AI-powered dinosaurs.

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Backed by Alibaba, ByteDance, Xiaomi and Meituan, X Square Robot unveiled a next-generation embodied AI foundation model for home robots and said its first deployments in everyday households will ...

Billions of dollars are flowing into humanoid robot startups, as investors bet that the industry will soon put humanlike machines in warehouses, factories and our living rooms. Many leaders of those ...

Peyton Perry heard a rumor that delivery robots would be coming to campus when she was a student at Fairfield University. Soon after, she saw her first robot at a campus Starbucks. She ordered ...

At IFA 2025 in Berlin, where startups jostle with legacy brands for attention, xLean Robotics managed to cut through the noise. The young company, spun out of CUHK’s T-Stone Robotics Institute, ...

A world half-marathon record was broken at a race in China this weekend. But the winner wasn't an Olympian or even a ...

A self-navigating robot called Lightning, developed by Chinese electronics company Honor, won the 13.1-mile race. Its results ...

B, an AI model designed for real-world homes, marking a milestone in home robotics. At the 'Born to Bot, Bot to Family' event, the company showcased its World Unified Model, combining vision, language ...

Just 15 runners lined up at the starting line for the first Boston Marathon in 1897. David Grilk hopes to get nearly that many robots to participate in a race he’s planning for Sunday, April 19, in ...