On this episode of Bloomberg Primer, we explore the gap between futuristic hype and reality—and how quickly it will shrink.

When Realbotix rolled its humanoid robot Melody onto the CES 2025 show floor in Las Vegas in January of that year, the ...

Walker S2 is an adult-sized humanoid robot with legs, a torso, and arms. China is sending these robots to patrol their border ...

Engineers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, also known as KAIST, built a humanoid that runs, jumps and even moonwalks with smooth control. In a recent field test, the robot ...

Robots can now run a half-marathon faster than humans and are rapidly homing in on the 100-metre sprint record. But why are ...

Robots that mimic humans are set to create a $5 trillion market. But it will take years and a lot of improvements to get there. Humanoid robots are expected to be deployed in factories and households ...

A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and ...

Humanoid machines slowly picked up litter and sorted out bouquets of flowers on Tuesday in a demonstration of how robots ...

At a training facility in Beijing's Shijingshan district, operators put humanoid robots through a simple but highly repetitive drill: pick up a key, line it up with a lock, slide it in and turn.

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Stanford’s AI Index says humanoid robots still fail 88% of household tasks, exposing a wide gap between lab gains and the reality of home use.