Robots created by school teams face off in a "Frenzy," a sort of robo-basketball contest invented by FIRST, Segway inventor Dean Kamen's science education group. (Photo credit: David Becker) The ...

BEIJING (AP) — A figure skater framed only by ragged ice gazes up, almost beseechingly. A goaltender sprawls inside a net, defeat written all over his limbs, even with his face obscured. These ...

It was easy to get excited by, or fearful about, the future suggested by at least one robot that debuted at the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week in Las Vegas. Hyundai, better known for ...

People have experimented with creating a machine in their image for about 200 years now. The first robot -- a soldier playing the trumpet -- was made in Germany in 1810 and was displayed at world ...

A figure skater framed only by ragged ice gazes up, almost beseechingly. A goaltender sprawls inside a net, defeat written all over his limbs, even with his face obscured. These Renaissance ...

A T1 robot from Booster Robotics demonstrates kicking a soccer ball at a fair ahead of the inaugural RoBoLeague robot soccer competition held in Beijing, Saturday, June 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan ...

BEIJING (AP) — Humanoid robots raced and punched their way through three days of a multi-sport competition at the World Humanoid Robot Games, wrapping up Sunday in Beijing. But they also toppled, ...