The best-known manufacturer of autonomous vacuums declared bankruptcy this week, and no one should be surprised.

But you can see the market appeal. A robot vacuum cleaner can’t climb stairs to clean an upstairs room. A robot arm that ...

Humanoid robots are all over social media, doing everything from dancing to serving drinks. But are they really going to show ...

So here we are: Roomba, the tech that put consumer robots on the map, now feels relatively ho-hum — one brand among many automated vacuums on the market — while the dream of an Optimus-esque bot to ...

EngineAi is a robotics company based in Shenzhen, China, founded in 2023. Shenzhen is rapidly emerging as China’s own Silicon Valley—but without the billionaire vulture capitalists in charge. The ...

UMA (Universal Mechanical Assistant), a new robotics intelligence company founded by former leaders from Tesla, Google DeepMind, Nvidia, and Hugging Face, has officially launched. The company aims to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I explore humans, technologies, and what’s next. Dec 01, 2025, 01:14pm EST As factories finalize 2026 budgets, a costly choice ...

Can everyone dial it down a little with the enthusiasm for humanoid robots that can’t even do anything useful yet? You’re scaring the Chinese economy. On Thursday, three Bloomberg reporters based in ...