The first units will ship to customers in the US in 2026. There is a $499 monthly subscription alternative to the $20,000 full-purchase price, though that will be available at an unspecified later ...

One day, robots might navigate through your blood vessels to break up clots, deliver targeted chemotherapy or repair ruptured blood vessels more efficiently and effectively than existing tools, ...

Think of actuators as the robot’s muscles —the technology that enables humanoids to move. Actuators come in three types: ...

Robot makers want us all to believe we’re on the brink of an autonomous humanoid robot revolution. But that’s just not true.

Sanket and his students found their answer in bats and the winged mammal’s highly sophisticated ability to echolocate, or ...

Initial hype for the 1X NEO cooled after demos showed the robot was still fully tele-operated, sparking skepticism online.

Robotics company 1X Technologies (1XT), which secured $100 million in funding from OpenAI, EQT Ventures, and others in 2024, unveiled a bipedal humanoid robot, Neo Beta, last year.

The bipedal bot, which has been a decade in development, stands at 66 inches and tips the scales at 66 pounds. It ...

X Technologies is taking orders for a robotic household helper it thinks could change the world. Neo’s first chore? Learning how to do its job.

X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?

We design AI companions to listen, obey, and adore—but in doing so, we reveal our own hunger for control. What does that say ...