A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and sometimes defeating them, according to a new study that shows how advances in artificial intelligence are making robots more agile.

It was not even close as a bright-red Chinese humanoid named “Lightning” lived up to its name in a half-marathon pitting humans against robots, smoking its competition on Sunday.

We can and still must lead in the field of robotics, but to achieve that goal, we need a concerted national effort to support innovation across the full robotics system,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said.

This roundup highlights the latest robotics innovations aimed at improving throughput, simplifying deployment and helping manufacturers address ongoing labor and process challenges.

As data centers scale and autonomous systems become more common, Micropolis Robotics’ Alexander Rugaev unpacks an operational boundary: machines can observe, but not decide. Robots are

HANNOVER, DE / ACCESS Newswire / April 22, 2026 / Monday morning at Hannover Messe. A four-legged robot trots across a booth floor. Then a second one. Then a third. DEEP Robotics shipped all three here.

SEALSQ Corp (LAES) ("SEALSQ" or "Company"), a company that focuses on developing and selling Semiconductors, PKI, and Post-Quantum technology hardware and software products, today announced that it is experimenting the implementation of its post-quantum ...

Wetour Robotics Limited (NASDAQ: WETO) ('Wetour Robotics' or the 'Company'), a Physical AI infrastructure and wearable robotics company headquartered in Austin, Texas, today announced the appointment of Bin Lian as Chief Technology Officer to lead the development of the Company's Orchestra human-machine interaction platform and Yu-Tien Chiu as Chief Marketing Officer.

According to a recent report by Egypt Independent, the Ukrainian military is increasingly sending machines into high-risk zones to perform