A Silicon Valley robotics company is drawing global attention after livestreaming a humanoid robot working a full eight-hour ...

Humanoid robots have quietly crossed a threshold from lab demos to real industrial work, and the software making that leap possible is Google’s Gemini family of AI models. Instead of being ...

Figure AI’s Helix 02 humanoid robots neared 40 hours of autonomous work and almost 50,000 packages in a livestreamed ...

Figure Helix handling a wider variety of packaging and approaching human-level dexterity and speed. Figure.ai One day after Figure AI broadcast an eight-hour livestream of its humanoid robots ...

Figure AI says its humanoid robots can now run full eight-hour shifts autonomously using ...

A robot arm that can flawlessly sort packages inside a computer simulation will, more often than not, fumble the same task ...

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 ...

The robot that won the humanoid half-marathon this month finished in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, a major improvement compared to the droid that won in two hours, 40 minutes and 42 seconds in 2025 Lexi ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. -- Unlike traditional competitions limited to indoor or scripted tasks, ATEC2026 evaluates whether robots can ...

Connecting the dots: Even the most advanced AI struggles outside the lab. In real-world tests, large language models stumble when it comes to spatial reasoning, situational awareness, and handling ...

A premapped course, a crew of handlers and a world-beating time: here’s what this Beijing half marathon reveals about how far humanoid robots have come—and how far they haven’t ...