SALEM, Ore. — In an office park opposite an Amazon warehouse, the robots are at work. A trio of six-foot-tall machines with ostrichlike legs and two jointed arms work in shifts, walking off a charging ...

While many robotics companies are building human-sized robots, or working to automate entire factories, MicroFactory is instead trying to think big by building small. San Francisco-based MicroFactory ...

Want to build scenes from 'Interstellar', 'Men in Black', and 'Arrival'? These LEGO sci-fi sets could become reality—they ...

Dozens of companies are building robots that look like humans. One of them is training a machine to be a butler and will soon test them in homes. Dozens of companies are building robots that look like ...

Kristine Le ’25 got bitten by the robotics bug in high school—but not because she had plans to become an engineer. She was a dancer until a back injury sidelined her in her first year at Lexington ...

To confront this growing labor crisis, Boris Sofman—a Carnegie Mellon robotics Ph.D. and early Waymo executive—cofounded Bedrock Robotics in 2024. Instead of building autonomous machines from scratch, ...

Instead, the next disruptive bet on humanity’s fate is moving into the realm of science fiction: Humanoid robots, UFOs and quantum computing. To a niche band of opportunistic fund managers, these aren ...