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Humanoid robots in 2025 proved the future, then face-planted

Humanoid robots spent 2025 straddling a strange line between breakthrough and blooper reel. They poured lattes, posed in fashion campaigns and even stepped into kickboxing rings, only to trip, ...
Scientific American

Why Humanoid Robots Still Can’t Survive in the Real World

What’s keeping them off the street is a challenge robotics researchers have circled for decades. Building robots is easier than making them function in the real world. A robot can repeat a TikTok ...
Forbes

Home Humanoid: Google DeepMind Shows Apptronik’s Robot Doing Real-World Tasks

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. Putting a plant into a planter, placing snacks in containers, and sorting laundry ...
Los Angeles Times

At a Silicon Valley summit, robots fold laundry—and investors open their wallets

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Roughly 2,000 investors, entrepreneurs and others attended a Mountain View summit that showcased robots that ...
Mainebiz

Robots, rage rooms and other offbeat stories in 2025

Entrepreneur Diana Tan channels her inner Julia Child during a talk at Maine Startup Week in May on using AI to cook up a dog-themed business from scratch in 60 seconds. FILE PHOTOS / RENEE CORDES AND ...