Why most robot demos don’t hold up in the real world

It’s easy to watch robotics demos and assume the future of automation is just a matter of scaling what already works. In a conversation at CES 2026, Mikell Taylor, head of robotics strategy at General ...
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Your Future Robot Companion Might Actually Be A Human Stranger — Here's Why

Ominous image of robot with black screen face - Sweetbunfactory/Getty Images A hotly-anticipated line of humanoid robots is giving a whole new meaning to the concept of "stranger danger". The 1X NEO ...
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Inside Elon Musk’s vision of the future, where robots do everything and humans don’t work: Utopia or ‘dystopian hellhole’?

The future is almost here — and, surprise, it’s going to be very relaxing. That’s according to Elon Musk, at least. In recent months, the tech tycoon has been pushing the idea of “sustainable ...
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Musk and other billionaires push robots to replace human labor, report says

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and a growing circle of billionaire tech investors are bankrolling humanoid robots designed to work ...
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Do robots have a race problem? Not all scholars agree

As humanoid robots enter the real world, new studies suggest that people project human racial biases onto them—but the ...