Robotics companies want tremendous amounts of data on how we move our hands and limbs, and their tactics are getting strange.

Chinese startups are churning out more humanoid robots than their U.S. rivals, despite far lower valuations.

Unitree is bringing its R1 to international markets. It arrives with some aerobatic capabilities and an entry-level price, but the question of what you'd actually do with it remains open.

Where there's a need, there's often an artificial intelligence solution, at least in Silicon Valley. A "socially intelligent" artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robot is being tested for several months at San Jose Mineta International Airport.

We are now in the humanoid robot era, and they're starting to show up in our homes. But are they any good? And what's the path to improvement?