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

While investors are busy pouring billions of dollars into humanoid robots, an MIT roboticist who has been making robots for ...

Roomba maker iRobot cofounder Rodney Brooks argued that Musk's vision of an Optimus robot-filled future is "pure fantasy ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

“Finally, an update to that Ameca face we’ve seen for years,” exclaimed one, referencing Engineered Arts’ now-famous humanoid ...

For Elon Musk, the future of Tesla isn't its global fleet of EVs. It's Optimus, the humanoid robot designed to help humans ...

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

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