Humanoid robots have quietly crossed a threshold from lab demos to real industrial work, and the software making that leap ...

XPeng has completed the first unit of its ET1 humanoid robot prototype, marking progress toward large-scale mass production.

Foundation models have made great advances in robotics, enabling the creation of vision-language-action (VLA) models that generalize to objects, scenes, and tasks beyond their training data. However, ...

It’s becoming a little easier to build sophisticated robotics projects at home. Earlier this week, AI dev platform Hugging Face released an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA. Trained on ...

In a leap for robotics, China’s UBTech has unveiled the Walker S2, the world’s first humanoid robot capable of fully autonomous battery swapping. Designed for non-stop industrial operations, the ...

Startup Dyna Robotics Inc. today detailed DYNA-1, an internally developed artificial intelligence model for powering robots. The algorithm’s debut comes a month after the company launched with $23.5 ...

After years of working in robotics, I've been thinking about what it takes to build something lasting in this space.

While the capabilities of robots have improved significantly over the past decades, they are not always able to reliably and ...

We sometimes call chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT “robots,” but generative AI is also playing a growing role in real, physical robots. After announcing Gemini Robotics earlier this year, Google ...

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When I was a kid, the idea of a real-life robot felt foreign. Earth was for humans. The Jetsons and their robot maid, Rosie, existed only on television. Now I work in manufacturing and frequently find ...