The industry’s automation trend continues as developers of humanoid robots focus on solving problems in the labor-intensive, repetitive task-driven warehouse of 2026.

NEW YORK -- As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand with its grippers, it looks nothing like the sleek and intimidating humanoids built by companies like Tesla.

SHENZHEN, GUANGDONG, CHINA, January 16, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In a resounding testament to its pioneering spirit

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU Dresden are pioneering a new approach to robotics by creating a collective of small robots that function like a smart material. According to Matthew Devlin, a former doctoral researcher in the lab of UCSB mechanical ...

Ai-Da Robot became the first humanoid robot to design a building with a modular Space Pod concept for Moon and Mars bases, featured at the Utzon Center in Denmark.

Robots find tricky tasks hard and need a lot of training. This system helps them plan ahead and act smarter using much less data.