Wire Up Prepare the wiring and electrical components: Jumper wires. Construction goes faster with pre-made jumper wires for the BYFR’s main electrical cables. You want an assortment of five or 10 female-female jumpers, 3" long. Speaker. There are no ...

Elon Musk has spent the past few years promising that a general purpose humanoid worker is not science fiction but Tesla’s next big product. The question now is not whether Optimus exists, but how far it has really progressed from stage demos to something that can survive in a factory or a living room without

Guangzhou Auto Group is set to begin small-scale production of its humanoid robot, GoMate, in 2026. The robot has already been shown in demo environments and is now being prepared for real industrial use. The company is focusing on automotive and logistics applications.

LG will debut its CLOiD home robot at CES 2026, highlighting its push toward intelligent home automation and a future where robots reduce daily household work.

Learn how lessons from medical robot design can be applied to all robotics from cobots to humanoids and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). Enjoying Machine Design’s Motion Systems content? Be sure to check out the rest of our Takeover Week coverage here.

Robots that move, sense and even coordinate with one another usually bring to mind tangled wires, circuit boards and humming motors. In a new study from the University of Oxford, all of that disappears.

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we introduce you to DoorDash’s new delivery robot and discuss what the growing robot population means for humans. Earlier this week, DoorDash unveiled its own new autonomous robot called Dot. The company says it’s ...