New companies are building robots in record time ... and at record cost. Massive changes have made physical AI — giving AI a ...

Now robots are doing the human. Artificial intelligence has become so sophisticated that it’s apparently no longer distinguishable from its human counterparts. The newest generation of ChatGPT has ...

Discover 2026’s biggest shifts in AI, robots, blockchain, agents, and ethics. Thirteen bold predictions reveal how technology ...

Artificial Intelligence and automation are often used interchangeably. While the technologies are similar, the concepts are different. Automation is often used to reduce human labor for routine or ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.—Rule #1 when testing humanoid robots: Be nice. You know why; you’ve seen the movies. And Neo looks like it marched straight out of one. The 5-foot-6-inch robot shuffled to the ...

Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, the recent popularity of anti-robot lingo ...

Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...

If you have spent time online in the past year, you’ve likely noticed how the web is becoming increasingly crowded with machine-generated content. From AI-written blogs to automated chatbots, the ...

A new fast-food establishment, BurgerBot, is making waves in the restaurant industry by employing robots instead of humans to prepare meals. The automated restaurant features robots that handle the ...

ELLABELL, Ga.—At Hyundai Motor Group’s ultramodern new auto plant, robots perform a stunning array of tasks. They move materials, attach doors and do almost all of the welding. Dog-like robots, their ...

As both the parent of newly graduated elementary and middle school students, and as a VC who invests in the technologies that could take away future jobs from our kids, I get this question a lot.

For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman. In the spring of 1940, Isaac Asimov, who had just turned twenty, published a short story titled “Strange Playfellow ...