Tom Standage, editor of The World Ahead, and Alex Hern, our AI writer, consider the technologies to watch in the coming year.

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making ...

However, as we enter 2026, the next big AI supercycle may be emerging. The first phase was largely about generative AI. This ...

A ranked look at the five AI stories that shaped 2025, from surveillance misuse and job shifts to robotics advances, AV ...

Reprogrammable humanoid robots could level the global manufacturing playing field, Arm CEO Rene Haas said at Fortune ...

The central premise of “Marjorie Prime,” now on Broadway with Cynthia Nixon, June Squibb, Danny Burstein and Christopher ...

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, ...

Researchers and students developed a new AI model that generates motion in a variety of robots using simple text commands.

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world’s smallest fully programmable ...

The new year is about to knock, and 2026 is being seen as a major turning point in the world of technology. The new year is ...