Meta has acquired humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) for an undisclosed sum, the social media giant said. “We acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a company at the frontier of ...

School hosted the KAIROS 2026 Mega Pool Drive on the theme Where Action Meets Opportunity. Over 500 candidates were connected with recruiters such as FactSet, Adecco, Berger Paints, Muthoot Finance, ...

Most people think of Toyota and picture a Camry, a Tacoma, maybe a Prius. A 7-foot-2 robot shooting free throws at halftime of a professional basketball game? That's a harder image to conjure. But ...

Swimming pools are fun. Cleaning swimming pools is not fun. I learned this simple logic as a kid growing up in and around pools—it’s the only way to survive summer in Houston. Four years ago, I became ...

Humanoid robots outran the fastest human competitors while surpassing the human world record during a half-marathon event held in Beijing on April 19. The demonstration of fast-improving robotic speed ...

First lady Melania Trump shares the spotlight with a Figure 03 robot to promote the use of artificial intelligence in education. I'm a Fitness & Nutrition writer for CNET who enjoys reviewing the ...

Amazon confirmed it has acquired Fauna Robotics, a startup building humanoid robots. Fauna's first product, called Sprout, is a $50,000 bipedal robot that's 3 feet, 6 inches tall and designed to be ...

On Jan. 15, 2026, Michael Hanaway, M.D., surgical director of the Kidney Transplant Program at University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Muhammad Rabbani, M.D., assistant professor in the Division of ...

Engineers have built a detachable robotic hand that can crawl into hard-to-reach spaces to retrieve objects. The spider-like device can be fitted with multiple fingers and is reversible, meaning it ...

The very capable robotic picker-upper can grasp things on both sides and roam around freely. By Ari Daniel As a mother of three, Aude Billard, a roboticist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Alan Boyle on Jan 14, 2026 at 8:15 ...

It’s great to have a robot vacuum that can help you sweep up your floors, but, as useful as they might be, they’re not designed to tackle wet messes such as spills or your dog’s muddy paw prints. A ...