Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also offered a counterintuitive prediction about how robots will affect human jobs.

Boston Dynamics latest Atlas humanoid robot is big, strong, and increasingly smart, thanks to Google. The company has plans to ship up to 30,000 per year.

For several decades, Boston Dynamics has pioneered the development of advanced robots, including humanoids and four-legged systems tested by the military as a way to carry supplies over rough terrain. The company was sold to Google in 2013 and bought by SoftBank in 2017. In 2021, Hyundai acquired a controlling stake.

Twenty-five years of the new millennium have passed and we’re still waiting for the futuristic world we were promised: Living in space, hover-cars, jet packs and extraterrestrial encounters. However,

Qualcomm (QCOM) unveiled its new Snapdragon X Plus 2 artificial intelligence (AI) chip for PCs at CES 2026 this week. The company also offered a peek into its robotics efforts. Qualcomm CFO Akash Palkhiwala sits down with Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley to discuss Qualcomm's position in the robotics market.

Agibot just released a robot dog, a factory-worker humanoid robot on wheels, a "white-collar" humanoid robot for reception-like duties, and a playful dancing robot.

Engineers and computer scientists are developing AI-powered robots that look and act human. Boston Dynamics invited 60 Minutes to watch its humanoid, Atlas, learn how to work at a Hyundai factory.

Realbotix develops humanoid robots with speech and image recognition. They interact with customers at trade fairs or in hotels.

Chinese company Agibot showed up with two: the human-sized A2 and the slightly smaller X2, both of which were displaying their surprisingly impressive dancing abilities.

Two-legged robots have a tendency to fall over and "need human intervention to get back up," like tortoises fallen on their backs. Because they're heavy and unstable, they are "currently unsafe for humans to be close to when they are walking."