Chinese robotics company Zhongqing Robotics (also known as Engine AI) posted a video of what is claimed to be the world’s first humanoid robot front flip. New Atlas reports: Ten years ago, this kind of stuff simply did not exist. And now you can buy yo…

“[O]ur intrepid China reporter, Caiwei Chen, has identified a new trend unfolding within China’s tech scene: Companies that were dominant in electric vehicles are betting big on translating that success into developing humanoid robots,” writes MIT Tech…

A robot in a South Korea distribution center crushed a man to death after the machine apparently failed to differentiate him from the boxes of produce it was handling. The Guardian reports: The man, a robotics company worker in his 40s, was inspecting …

Oregon State University on Tuesday urged students and staff to “avoid all robots” after a bomb threat was reported in Starship food delivery robots. NBC News reports: The warning was issued at 12:20 p.m. local time and by 12:59 p.m., the potentially da…

Amazon says it’s testing two new technologies to increase automation in its warehouses, including a trial of a humanoid robot. From a report: The humanoid robot, called Digit, is bipedal and can squat, bend and grasp items using clasps that imitate han…

A Tokyo startup has developed a 4.5-meter-tall, four-wheeled robot modeled after the “Mobile Suit Gundam” from the Japanese animation series. It has a price tag of $3 million. Reuters reports: Called ARCHAX after the avian dinosaur archaeopteryx, the r…

“Bear attacks in Japan have been rising at an alarming rate, so the city of Takikawa [about 570 miles from Tokyo] installed a robot wolf as a deterrent,” reports the BBC. “The robot wolf was originally designed to keep wild animals from farmlands, but …

The official Tesla Optimus account shared an update video showing the progress its humanoid robot has made since it was announced in August 2021. In a video that looks like CGI, you can see Optimus sorting blocks and performing some yoga poses, among o…

“New York City is now turning to robots to help patrol the Times Square subway station,” quipped one local newscast.

The non-profit New York City blog Gothamist describes the robot as “almost as tall as the mayor — but at least three-times as w…