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This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike Movements

While there is a lot of work to do, Tedrake says all of the evidence so far suggests that the approaches used to...

Samsung, Nvidia are investing $35 million combined in THIS robotics startup. Here’s why

Robotics software startup Skild AI Incorporated has drawn investments from MNC Samsung Electronics and chips major Nvidia Corporation, totalling $35 million, as both...

Amazon Has Made a Robot With a Sense of Touch

“Amazon stores many different products in bins, so rummaging is necessary to pull out a specific object to fill an order,” says Ken...

The Dream of the Metaverse Is Dying. Manufacturing Is Keeping It Alive

It used to be that when BMW would refit a factory to build a new car, the only way the automaker could check...

2025 Is the Year of the Humanoid Robot Factory Worker

Later this year, Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work in a Hyundai factory. The new version of...

Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half Marathon in Beijing

While capabilities like dancing can be fun and eyecatching, they don’t actually show how useful humanoid robots are in real-world situations, says Fern....

Hugging Face Acquires Pollen Robotics to Unleash Open Source AI Robots

Lapeyre says selling humanoid robots remains challenging, because the use cases are unclear and the systems are still unreliable—though some companies are starting...

Boston Dynamics Led a Robot Revolution. Now Its Machines Are Teaching Themselves New Tricks

Reinforcement learning is a decades-old way of having a computer learn to do something through experimentation combined with positive or negative feedback. It...

AI-Powered Robots Can Be Tricked Into Acts of Violence

In the year or so since large language models hit the big time, researchers have demonstrated numerous ways of tricking them into producing...