Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We ...

CES 2026 wrapped with humanoid robots, consumer robotics, Chinese manufacturers in force, and AI integrated into displays, ...

Laundry is a complex, multistep chore many of us would happily hand off to a robot: collecting, sorting, loading, unloading, ...

One of Elon Musk’s worries was on full display at CES in Las Vegas this week. Chinese-made human-like robots were everywhere ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

Forget about robots that look like they're straight out of science fiction. ‘Unobtrusive physical AI,’ as the technology is called, could wind up being more pervasive in the real world. Two competing ...