Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making bigger promises. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET.

What’s keeping them off the street is a challenge robotics researchers have circled for decades. Building robots is easier than making them function in the real world. A robot can repeat a TikTok ...

Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but what we use them for partly depends on answers to very human questions: Do we trust them? Do we like them? According to one prediction, the mass-adoption ...

Combined area the size of Windsor Forest will now not be restored for nature following decision to exempt smaller housing projects from Biodiversity Net Gain scheme, campaigners claim More housing and ...

More housing developments will be exempt from rules requiring builders in England to improve wildlife habitats, the government said on Tuesday. Ministers have been reviewing rules known as ...

More than 140 firms and experts join growing calls warning government not to press ahead with reforms that would scale back flagship nature recovery scheme Over 140 businesses, nature experts, and ...

A coalition of 140 academics, lawyers and business leaders is calling on the UK Government not to retrospectively alter its Biodiversity Net Gain mandate, arguing that changes would “weaken confidence ...

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This robot was designed to do your house chores, but a remote human operator might be helping it finish them. Connor is a technology writer and editor, with a byline on multiple platforms. He has been ...

Robotics companies have converted the pages of science fiction books into real life, as artificial intelligence-powered humanoid machines are in the early stages of development. The industry is ...

In an open letter, they express concern over reports the Treasury is set to remove BNG requirements for sites under 1ha (2.47 acres).