Last year, Norwegian-US tech company 1X announced a strange new product: "the world's first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform life at home." ...

Self-driving vehicle companies are revealing new details about their safety-critical “remote assistance” programs—but questions remain.

In a bid to treat blindness, Life Biosciences will try out potent cellular reprogramming technology on volunteers. When Elon Musk was at Davos last week, an interviewer asked him if he thought aging ...

In a nutshell: China's ambitious drive to automate its factories is running up against the physical and computational limits of current humanoid robots. Shenzhen-based UBTech Robotics, one of the ...

Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei spoke with WSJ’s Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker from the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Photo: Maurizio Martorana for WSJ This is an edition of the WSJ ...

At CES 2026, humanoid robotics company ROBOTERA is drawing attention not just for full-sized humanoid platforms, but for something arguably more fundamental: the robotic hand. While much of the ...

On January 20, Musk said on X that early production of both products will be “agonizingly slow”—a remarkable admission for a man who has spent the past year telling investors these moonshot projects ...

The Trump administration announced Thursday that human fetal tissue derived from abortions can no longer be used in research funded by the National Institutes of Health. The policy, long urged by anti ...

Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum on Thursday about his vision for a world where there are more robots than people—enough robots that you won't be able to think of anything more to ask them to ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday told Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz that it is not “cool” that robots are performing ultrasounds in Alabama, after Oz ...

On Monday, Anthropic announced a new tool called Cowork, designed as a more accessible version of Claude Code. Built into the Claude Desktop app, the new tool lets users designate a specific folder ...

A gelatin memristor with 16 stable conductance states mimics biological pain perception, rating intensity, sensitizing after injury, and self-healing while directly controlling mouse muscle response. ...