A humanoid robot conducts late-night testing in Beijing on April 11, 2026, as it prepares for the upcoming half marathon event held in the city. Photo: VCG. As the capital city sh

Robotics companies want tremendous amounts of data on how we move our hands and limbs, and their tactics are getting strange. I was recently invited to join an app that would pay me cryptocurrency to film myself doing tasks like putting food into a bowl ...

Where there's a need, there's often an artificial intelligence solution, at least in Silicon Valley. A "socially intelligent" artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robot is being tested for several months at San Jose Mineta International Airport.

We are now in the humanoid robot era, and they're starting to show up in our homes. But are they any good? And what's the path to improvement?