In hazardous settings —such as disaster zones, mines or biohazard facilities—humanoids can undertake dangerous tasks, thereby reducing the risk to humans. In industries where labor is both scarce and ...

Researchers are using generative AI and other techniques to teach robots new skills—including tasks they could perform in homes. Silent. Rigid. Clumsy. Henry and Jane Evans are used to awkward ...

For a generation of scientists raised watching Star Wars, there’s a disappointing lack of C-3PO-like droids wandering around our cities and homes. Where are the humanoid robots fuelled with common ...

As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate many kinds of grunt work. More than 540,000 new industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2023, taking the number of ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skild AI, an AI robotics company building a scalable foundation model for robotics, today announced it has closed a $300M Series A funding round. The round was led by ...

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 ...

On a metallic door in San Francisco’s Mission District, a single character—“π”—offers a cryptic clue as to the virtuous circle of labor taking place beyond. The door opens to reveal furious activity ...

Ant Group, backed by Jack Ma, unveils its first humanoid robot at 2025 Inclusion Conference in Shanghai. Focus on 'brains' ...

The world of robotics is poised for a quantum leap forward, thanks to the latest groundbreaking endeavor from Google DeepMind. The newly unveiled Gemini Robotics Foundation Model is set to redefine ...

In restaurants around the world, from Shanghai to New York, robots are cooking meals. They make burgers and dosas, pizzas and stir-fries, in much the same way robots have made other things for the ...

“WHAT DO YOU see right now?” a man asks a humanoid robot standing behind a table. “I see a red apple on a plate in the centre of the table, a drying rack with cups and a plate, and you standing nearby ...

Nvidia has unveiled a new model which could form the foundation of future humanoid robotics projects, representing a step forward toward a reality of generalist robots. The Nvidia Isaac Groot N1 model ...