Tag: Robots

The Morning After: The next CEO of Apple will be hardware exec John Ternus

Apple’s current SVP of hardware engineering John Ternus will take over as the new CEO when Tim...

Beijing’s robot half-marathon is back for its second year with far less embarassing results

To make up for an incredibly laughable inaugural event, Beijing is running back its humanoid robot half-marathon....

Robosen Soundwave review: A childhood dream made real

There's just something magical about a robot that can convert into a car, tank or plane. It...

Anthropic is opening an office in DC while battling Pentagon in court

Anthropic has launched a new research initiative called Anthropic Institute and has revealed that its Public Policy...

A closer look at Honor’s Robot Phone

While Honor has already made plenty of product announcements, with tablets, foldables and more, its most interesting...

AI vs. the Pentagon: killer robots, mass surveillance, and red lines

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 29: U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (C) speaks during a meeting of...

We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots

It's the day of the Pentagon's looming ultimatum for Anthropic: allow the US military unchecked access to...

The lonely promise of cute robots

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects...

Tesla is killing off its Model S and X cars to make robots

Tesla will “basically stop the production” of its Model S and X electric vehicles next quarter, CEO...

Tesla discontinuing Model S and Model X to make room for robots

Tesla will discontinue the Model S and Model X in the second quarter of 2026, Elon Musk...

Lego has a new round of Star Wars sets that work with the Smart Brick

Lego unveiled its Smart Play system at CES 2026 earlier this month, with a selection of sets...

Microsoft unveils first robotics model targeted at boosting physical AI in a bid to free robots from the production line

Robots still fail quickly once removed from predictable factory environmentsMicrosoft Rho-alpha links language understanding directly to robotic...

Elon Musk just told Davos that Tesla will sell humanoid robots next year, really, he swears

Elon Musk just took the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and announced that...

Humanoid robots are ‘stepping out of the lab and into the real world’ to take the jobs we don’t want – so get ready...

Humanoid robots are slowly but steadily moving into human workplacesLabor shortages are pushing automation into roles people...

How human motion is fueling the robot revolution — by teaching robots like Atlas to move in lifelike ways

As TechRadar's Senior Health and Fitness Editor, I've used a lot of movement-tracking tools, from the best...

The Morning After: Apple will use Gemini to power Siri AI

Apple and Google have confirmed that Gemini’s models power the new version of Siri and other generative...

CES 2026 robots were wild, silly, and sometimes disappointing but there was one that restored my faith in robotics

Every tech category has its moment, and for robots, that moment was CES 2026. There were dozens...

Forget the robots, these are the best computing innovations at CES 2026

The CES show floor is often a wild, seemingly lawless place where you’ve got e-Bikes and vacuum...

We tried to get humanoid robots to do the laundry

At CES this year, humanoid robots appeared to be closer than ever to moving into our homes....

The robots we saw at CES 2026: The lovable, the creepy and the utterly confusing

CES always has its share of attention-grabbing robots. But this year in particular seemed to be a...

Sharpa’s ping-pong playing, blackjack dealing humanoid is working overtime at CES 2026

There were no idle hands at Sharpa's CES booth. The company's humanoid may have been the busiest...

CES 2026 offered a lonely vision of the future

LG opened CES 2026 by outlining its vision to reduce the physical effort and mental burden of...

I can’t get over this goofy, long-necked ‘cyber pet’ robot at CES

Cute, alien-inspired companion robots are a fixture at CES, but have I ever seen one with a...

CES 2026 Day 2: All of the coolest tech we saw on the show floor during the second day

CES 2026’s second day was all about hands on time with new tech. From Lego’s most ambitious...

You won’t be able to buy Samsung’s household Ballie robot after all

For years, we’ve been wondering when Samsung would actually bring Ballie, its cute household companion robot, to...

LG’s CLOiD robot can fold laundry and serve food… very slowly

When LG announced that it would demo a laundry-folding, chore-doing robot at CES 2026, I was immediately...

Niko is a robotic lift for people with limited mobility that doesn’t require a caregiver’s help

A startup called ReviMo has developed a robotic system that provides a way for people with limited...

Switchbot came to CES with a laundry robot you might actually be able to buy

CES 2026 isn't the first year we've seen a wave of interesting robots or even useful robots...