A new robot not only sports that feature, but it can actually train itself to speak like a person. Developed by robotics PhD student Yuhang Hu, Prof. Hod Lipson and colleagues at Columbia University, ...

Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed at Columbia Engineering learned realistic lip movements by watching its own ...

Airbus is dipping its toes into the humanoid robot workforce with a purchase of China-based UBTech’s robots, according to Bloomberg. The European airplane manufacturer is apparently going to try to ...

Boston Dynamics Just Beat Tesla to the Factory Floor. Here's Why Investors Should Watch the Parts, Not the Robot. At CES 2026 two weeks ago, a robot walked onto a Las Vegas stage, waved to the crowd, ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk acknowledged the possibility that Optimus could overshadow the legacy of the brand’s electric vehicles. Tesla lost EV sales leadership to BYD in 2025 amid regulatory challenges.

Amid abysmal car sales that continue to plummet worldwide and major regulatory hurdles plaguing the company’s driver assistance software, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is desperately looking to reinvent the ...

Raj Subramaniam took over three years ago from FedEx’s founder, who ran the company for nearly 50 years. Since then, technology, tariffs and other disruptions have “fundamentally shifted” patterns of ...

Korean auto giant plans to use humanoid robots at its Georgia factory starting in 2028. Hyundai Motor Group and its subsidiary, Boston Dynamics, unveil humanoid robots on Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, that ...