This summer, I found myself in the strange position of watching a humanoid robot try to load laundry. It squatted beside a ...

Factory floors used to be loud with human voices. Not anymore. Instead, more and more factories have a monotonous, almost hypnotic hum. It’s the sound of a million arms that never tire. We’re talking, ...

The new models, dubbed Gemini Robotics 1.5 and Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5, greatly expand on the capabilities of the original ...

Figure AI said it had raised more than $1 billion in a funding round that valued the company at $39 billion, making it one of ...

CEO Ali Agha is getting robots out into the world quickly to feed a data collection flywheel that just started spinning ...

It's been a goal for as long as humanoids have been a subject of popular imagination—a general-purpose robot that can do rote ...

From Friday to Sunday, human handlers from 16 countries put about 500 bipedal robots through various motions to showcase the promise and limits of embodied artificial intelligence at what was billed ...

Modularity is taking off in more ways than one in space exploration. The design of the upcoming "Lunar Gateway" space station is supposed to be modular, with different modules being supplied by ...

The growth of surgical robots is huge, and this company is looking to get in on the action while it also works to boost its ...

Launched in five countries in 2020, the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) is now active in 14 countries with more than 40k ...

BEIJING — They aren’t the most graceful athletes, or the fastest. But they’re learning. From Friday to Sunday, human handlers from 16 countries put about 500 bipedal robots through various motions to ...