A new humanoid robot went from concept to live factory work in just seven months — and it’s now performing real industrial ...

Designed for industrial, domestic and service tasks, the robot aims to address labour shortages, physically demanding work, and unpaid domestic care. Humans spend up to a year learning to stand and ...

Figure AI has raised $675m at a $2.6bn valuation and has entered into partnerships with OpenAI and Microsoft to roll out its humanoid robots. Figure AI, a start-up focused on humanoid robotics, has ...

Every few weeks, it seems, a certain type of video will make the rounds on the internet. Promoted by one of a number of robotics firms, it features a humanoid—a robot designed to resemble a ...

A robotics test took an unexpected turn in China when a Unitree G1 humanoid robot misjudged a movement. The moment was captured on December 24 as an engineer demonstrated combat-style motions in ...

Boston Dynamics’ Atlas is testing warehouse work at Hyundai’s Georgia plant, showing how fast humanoid robots are moving from demos to factories.

A few short months ago, almost every robot made by the hundreds of companies working on humanoid robots could charitably be described as slow, topping out at around three mph. Walking was on the edge ...

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Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing today, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21km course. The robots from ...

The funding will be used to advance the start-up’s development of cognitive and humanoid robots. Germany-based Neura Robotics yesterday (15 January) announced it has raised €120m in a Series B funding ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. While Elon Musk plans a Tesla bot factory in Silicon Valley, Chinese companies like Unitree Robotics are already ...