Humanoid robots are expected to appear in more homes and rack up more hours in warehouses and factories in the coming year.

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Co-habiting or working alongside robots with humanlike capabilities may no longer be a thing of science-fiction. Assembling car parts or doing the weekly shop may be smart tasks for collaborative ...

Humanoid robots had a lot of wins and losses in 2025, and 2026 could be a major turning point for this technology if the companies developing them can find solutions to some big problems.

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Researchers at Robotics Institute at UCSD are developing robots designed to work alongside humans and exploring what ...

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Imagine a world where surgeons are guided by AI to perform complex operations with the precision of world-class experts and where life-saving surgery reaches remote corners of the globe through ...

Dr. Kornelis Poelstra is pioneering the future of spinal surgery with robotics — and he’s doing it right here in Southern ...

At the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, colorectal cancer surgeon Dr. Katerina Neumann is eager to get her hands on a ...

A dozen or so young men and women, eyes obscured by VR headsets, shuffle around a faux kitchen inside a tech company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Their arms are bent at the elbows, palms facing down ...

Carson Bruns is working to lend chemists a hand—literally—by bringing collaborative robots into chemical wet labs. Bruns, an assistant professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical ...