Billions of dollars are flowing into humanoid robot startups, as investors bet that the industry will soon put humanlike machines in warehouses, factories and our living rooms. Many leaders of those companies would like to temper those expectations.

Hardware costs for humanoid robots are plummeting, but managing a fleet of these autonomous workers will severely test your enterprise IT infrastructure, security, and budget.

In an office building in Beijing's Shijingshan district, a special "school" is in full swing, with nearly 200 human teachers and 100 humanoid robot students.

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...