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You’ve read all of William Gibson’s novels. You’ve seen Blade Runner so many times you can quote it verbatim. You’re on your 30th play-through of Cyberpunk 2077. Like a scrappy citizen of the hi-tech, low life worlds you love, you’re desperate for a change. You need a new score. Something…

The frustration of walking into a grocery store with a high-value coupon only to find an empty shelf is a common experience for bargain hunters. However, in late 2025, retailers are deploying a new weapon to combat out-of-stocks: autonomous inventory robots. These slender, tower-like machines, often seen roaming the aisles…

In 2014 the Malaysian Airlines jet vanished over the Indian Ocean. Now the team that located Shackleton’s Endurance is looking again with the latest undersea robots

US President Donald Trump claims robots and artificial intelligence will boost US jobs, not destroy them. But will AI really create more work or replace human workers?

As part of China's broader push in the field of robotics, it is set to deploy a fleet of robots to the Fanggengchang border crossing in Guangxi near Vietnam.

Fully programmable, autonomous robots 'smaller than a grain of salt' have been developed by research teams from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan.

Robovacs have come a long way in the decade I've been testing them for... but there's still room for improvement.

"Robots have nightmares about cars," Serve Robotics co-founder MJ Burk Chun told Fortune Brainstorm AI. "Cars are also very scary for robots."

Humanoid robots that fold your laundry to fluffy wearable creatures that act shy around people – there's been plenty of marvellously eyebrow-raising gadgets this year.