Should Roomba owners worry about their robot vacuum after iRobot's bankruptcy? Here's what the company says. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images It's been a tough few years for iRobot, maker of the ...

In early December 2025, Chinese robotics firm EngineAI introduced its humanoid robot T800. Unlike those already seen by BGR, including Neura's task-oriented 4NE1 robot, which will eventually help ...

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Hello again, and thank you for spending time with Fast Company’s Plugged In. Last October, I visited the Silicon Valley headquarters of 1X Technologies—the startup behind a humanoid home robot called ...

At its highest setting, it has a suction power of about 8,000 pascals, and it comes with an auto-detangling roller brush. It's got a self-emptying bin, and the frequency is totally customizable ...

Watch Tesla's Optimus robot fall over while removing a phantom headset. Credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images A bizarre video of one of Tesla's Optimus robots appearing to malfunction and ...

A new video surfacing from a Tesla demonstration in Miami this weekend shows the Optimus humanoid robot taking a nasty fall. But it’s not the fall itself that is raising eyebrows, it’s the specific ...

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When Xpeng unveiled its Next Gen Iron humanoid recently, the robot glided across the stage with movement so fluid that the crowd froze. Many viewers thought they saw an actor in a suit. Clips spread ...

Alex is the Institute of Humanoid and Machine Cognition's "next generation humanoid robot" and enters the world like a first round draft choice, with tons of potential and great expectations. Alex is ...

The robot walked over 2.5 full marathons in China. One robot just walked its way into history. Chinese robotics company AgiBot has set a new world record for the longest distance walked by a humanoid ...

Marine litter is a major environmental problem. Abandoned containers and fishing gear can trap or strangle animals, and plastic waste can break down into microplastics, which can release chemicals ...