Robotics

Humanoid robots, powered by advanced AI, are driving reshoring, new value chains and deep shifts in skilled work. With certified data on automation and policy, digital and AI step off the screen and into the factory.

Factory workers and homemakers are filming their daily actions to teach robots manual tasks. This digitization of gestures creates a vast visual data archive, yet it raises a critical question about who owns the value generated from this human experience.

BYD is stepping into robotics with Xiao Di, a 1.61-meter humanoid with 31 degrees of freedom, debuting in August at its Di Space showroom in Zhengzhou, with plans for two to three robots per store.

The near future, according to reports from Goldman Sachs and the World Economic Forum, will see AI revolutionize work and society. As we build powerful technologies, like at Starbase, the challenge of managing them with wisdom and ethical responsibility emerges.

A 3D-printed robotic arm grips objects without sensors or algorithms. The real intelligence lies in geometry. Here's why this changes everything in automation and AI.

SUYUAN, il robot umanoide di Shanghai Electric con 41 gradi di libertà, cambia batteria da solo e lavora senza sosta in fabbrica: presentato al WAIC 2026, punta su ispezione, assemblaggio e movimentazione.

Developed in Genoa by a team from IIT, Gene.01 is the new humanoid robot poised to revolutionize Fincantieri's shipyards. Designed for strenuous and hazardous jobs like welding, it aims to fill the gap left by a shortage of skilled labor.

Tesla is betting everything on Optimus, its humanoid robot, by converting car production lines to start its manufacturing. The goal is one million units per year, a colossal industrial challenge aimed at revolutionizing physical labor.

Humanoid robots are no longer science fiction. Figure AI built 30,000 BMWs with its androids and is now valued at $39 billion. But is this really the future we want?

On 16 July 2026, Shenzhen debuts the URKL, the world's first humanoid robot combat league. A headless T800 keeps fighting: pure spectacle, but also a cutting-edge laboratory for the AI of tomorrow.

For the first time, two humanoid robots completed real surgical interventions in a preclinical trial. A silent revolution that could reshape global medicine, from telesurgery to rural hospitals and beyond.

A robot with 25 independent movements, artificial tendons, and advanced sensors promises to revolutionize humanoid manipulation. But is AI truly ready to guide it autonomously?

Milanese researchers have created artificial fibers that replicate human muscles using electrically charged fluids. A breakthrough set to revolutionize prosthetics, exoskeletons, and embodied artificial intelligence.

It is one of the questions many people ask after an underwater tragedy: why not use a robot instead of divers?