We look at the promise and peril of robots that look like humans. By Sam Sifton I am the host of this newsletter. Scientists and entrepreneurs are working tirelessly toward a strange goal: robots that ...

To reliably complete household chores, assemble products and tackle other manual tasks, robots should be able to adapt their ...

A robot face developed by researchers can now lip sync speech and songs after training on YouTube videos, using machine ...

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 ...

When Elon Musk talks about robotics, he rarely hides the ambition behind the dream. Tesla's Optimus is pitched as an ...

The most exciting robots at CES 2026 show how makers are closer to developing robots that not only look like humans, but can ...

While it's not ready to join the workforce yet, Atlas, an AI-powered humanoid, is learning how to do human tasks.

John McCormick receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Robots come in a vast array of shapes and sizes. By definition, they’re machines that perform automatic tasks and can be operated ...

To match the lip movements with speech, they designed a "learning pipeline" to collect visual data from lip movements. An AI model uses this data for training, then generates reference points for ...