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 industrial robot rollout across the globe neared a record in 2024 with 542,000 installations — more than double the ...

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 ...

Factories in China installed nearly 300,000 new robots last year, more than the rest of the world combined. Indian factories installed 9,100 robots.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...