It's been 24 years since CNET first published an article with the headline The robots are coming. It's a phrase I've repeated in my own writing over the years -- mostly in jest. But now in 2026, for the first time, I feel confident in declaring that the robots have finally arrived.

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 ...

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.

A team from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan has built the tiniest programmable, self-driving robots ever made—microscopic

Robots are quietly lining up for factory jobs and humans may soon be outnumbered or replaced entirely

The idea of a humanoid robot building an airplane may sound far-fetched, but a new deal between the European aviation giant Airbus and Chinese robot specialist UBTech suggests that such a scenario could be on the cards.