The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet.

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

Robots can do a lot these days. Cleaning houses, building machines, helping doctors in surgery, and now, a scientist based out of China is working on a robot that can carry a human fetus to term. The ...

Technologically, we’re in a very interesting place at the moment. We’re on the precipice of many interesting developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, though I’m not really convinced ...

A humanoid robot has just done something that sounds like a stunt but reads like a roadmap for the future of work. In China, a machine walked more than 100 kilometers over three days, navigating real ...

AgiBot, a humanoid robotics company based in Shanghai, has engineered a way for two-armed robots to learn manufacturing tasks through human training and real-world practice on a factory production ...

But the tone and pizzazz of IREX has always been provided by the humanoids. It’s a somehow thrilling spectacle to see robots ...

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 ...