The idea of a killer robot takeover has long been a staple of popular sci-fi movies, owing to the inherent tension between human ingenuity and the potential consequences of playing with forces beyond ...

Ground Control Robotics (GCR) Inc., a startup company seeking to commercialize a centipede-like robot developed at Georgia Institute of Technology, may be on the verge of acquiring its first customers ...

A security flaw in a smart home device is pretty bad on its own, but it's even worse when someone accidentally finds it and ...

Every year since 1967, the world has gotten used to starting a new year with an avalanche of promises from the world of technology and innovation, thanks to that insane industry event held in Las ...

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CES 2026 highlighted a trend growing over the past few years: The humanoid robots era. What would previously be announcements of fast quadruped robots, dog-like machines running around that would make ...

The Figure 03 is a humanoid robot with a lofty goal. The company that makes it, Figure AI, wants to build a machine in the form of a human being, and put the bots to work across the global ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But ...