In the latest episode of What the Future, we run down the best highlights and fails from the first World Humanoid Robot Games held last week in China. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video ...

Hospitals trumpet robotic surgery as innovation. Surgeons market it as progress. Manufacturers insist the technology is safe. But when things go wrong, everyone insists it was someone else’s fault.

What can a humanoid robot actually do in the real world? If you’ve seen videos online of the Boston Dynamics Atlas robot or Tesla’s Optimus bot, you might have assumed that these machines are just ...