Fauna Robotics’ humanoid robot Sprout is an attempt to start a focus on ‘approachable’ robots inspired by Wall-E and BB-8, not Terminator.

Tesla is quietly redrawing the map of humanoid robotics, shifting the center of gravity from California to Texas. The company is preparing Gigafactory Texas to build its Optimus robots at volumes that dwarf anything planned on the West Coast,

Living with robots could lead to plenty of societal improvements, but they also pose risks to how we socialize and co-exist with other human beings.

NEW YORK -- As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand with its grippers, it looks nothing like the sleek and intimidating humanoids built by companies like Tesla.

Chinese humanoid robots are moving closer to the US market as startups like LimX expand overseas, raising pressure on Tesla’s Optimus.

It's been a big week for humanoid robots with a first-ever humanoid to directly connect to a low-Earth orbit satellite and prep for launch.

With stats like that, one can’t help but suspect that the first country to have a million humanoids will be China.