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Richie Garcia is worried about the impact that robot umpires will have on their human counterparts. Major League Baseball introduced the Automated Ball-Strike System for regular-season play this ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump often commands the attention of any room she enters but all eyes — and cameras — were trained on her humanoid companion on Wednesday. The robot accompanied the first ...

If you have read Melania Trump’s memoir or watched her film, you know our First Lady isn’t an inherently interesting person. But I’ll give her this: She does have a fascinating habit of leaning into ...

Standing at 4 feet tall, Unitree’s R1 Air can run, flip, walk on its hands, and jump-kick a watermelon into pulp. The humanoid robot has 26 joints and AI vision, and it connects to an app that allows ...

Warehouse robots are reshaping the way goods move across the globe, handling millions of units daily with precision and speed. In 2026, labor shortages and surging e-commerce demand are accelerating ...

What would happen if AI becomes capable of performing essentially all economically valuable work? In a wide-ranging Q&A, Yale economist Pascual Restrepo dives into how economists view the future of ...

Bizarre footage has captured the chaotic moment a service robot appeared to spin out of control at a restaurant near San Jose, California, violently striking a customer’s food and tableware without ...

Automation has made its way into restaurant kitchens. Planet Money looks at what the effects of automation have been historically — and watches a robot wok in action to see how it may change things.

When I went to Disneyland last year and sat in a room where Walt Disney himself stood up and spoke, I was blown away by what Walt Disney Imagineering had made real. And yet, less than a year later, I ...

There's always been a pretty obvious gap between what companies demo on stage and what you can actually go out and buy when it comes to humanoid robots. But that gap got a lot smaller in October 2025 ...