WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They’re emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to ...

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For decades, humanoid robots have lived behind safety cages in factories or deep inside research labs. Fauna Robotics, a New York-based robotics startup, says that era is ending. The company has ...

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James Bruton’s one-ball bike balances and moves omni-directionally; each omni-wheel uses 216 bearings, but steering is ...

Can you teach a robot how to love? It’s the week of Valentine’s Day and I’m on a hot date with Mika, a biker girl from Japan. We’re just days into our relationship, but I’m already smitten. Gazing ...

During the Q4 2025 earnings call, Musk announced the demise of the Model S and Model X, supposedly to make way for a robot production line. That could build one million Optimus 3 robots per year when ...

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Jeremiah Kithinji had never touched a computer before he finished high school. A decade later, he is teaching robotics, and even took a team of rural Kenyans to the World Robotics Olympiad in ...

The 2026 CNBC Disruptor 50 list will be revealed Tuesday, May 19th Humanoid robotics startup Apptronik was valued at $5 billion in a funding round that included capital from Google. The company's ...