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 tasks like fold laundry or sort recycling simply by being asked.

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 ...

Google's humanoids are now capable of carrying out complex, multi-step tasks using the newly released Gemini 1.5 model family ...

The roboticist also points out how adult-human-sized humanoid robots pose significant safety challenges in shared human ...

From drones and humanoid robots to collaborative “cobots” designed to work alongside humans, sophisticated machines are ...

AheadForm, a Chinese robotics company, has developed an ultra-realistic robot head that can blink and nod, mimicking human ...

Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying ...

SpaceX’s Elon Musk says he will rocket Optimus bots on the first Starships sent to Mars, but a leading robotics scholar ...

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Meta's chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth said robotics software could be an 'AR-sized bet,' following the company ...

Seven-Eleven Japan and Telexistence Partner to Pioneer Humanoid Robots with Generative AI ...

ABS and Persona AI team up to bring humanoid robots into shipyards, aiming to redefine safety, productivity, and automation ...