Nick DiGiovanni’s studio is designed for large-scale food production rather than everyday cooking. This video documents a ...

Robotaxis have spent years learning to navigate downtown grids and suburban cul-de-sacs. Their next test is far more chaotic: the curbside crush, looping roadways, and security rules of major airports ...

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 ...

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 are desperate to put the robots to work. The only problem is, the robots don’t “work” to any degree. These humanoid bots are interesting. Some are even cute. Few, if any, are anywhere close to ...

Boston Dynamics has been working on the Atlas robot since 2013, and it's come a long way since. The key? Humanoid robots shouldn't copy human anatomy exactly, said Boston Dynamics' CEO Robert Playter ...

A Wayland man who was convicted of butchering his ex-girlfriend shortly after they had graduated from high school in 2011 has had his latest attempt at a new trial denied by Massachusetts’ highest ...

Realbotix aims to make its robots as human as possible, and at CES 2026, I had an opportunity to interview them and see how far along they are. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for ...

In a unanimous decision Thursday morning, Massachusetts’ highest court upheld the first-degree murder conviction for Nathaniel Fujita, who killed a woman he dated in high school in July 2011, shortly ...

The Wayland man who murdered his former high school girlfriend in his family’s home in 2011 was mentally ill at the time, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday, but his “purposeful conduct” ...

CES always brings robots – some useful, some confusing, some that feel like movie props that wandered into the wrong conference. In 2026, there’s a real shift: Robots aren’t trying to be sci-fi ...

CES 2026 isn't the first year we've seen a wave of interesting robots or even useful robots crop up in Las Vegas. But it's the first year I can remember when there have been so many humanoid and ...