EV maker Tesla shared the latest update on its humanoid robot Optimus on X (formerly Twitter) on December 3. The video clip ...

Xpeng's humanoid robot moves so realistically that crowds believed it was fake, marking a major advancement in robotics ...

Rather than pushing a futuristic, machine-forward aesthetic, XPENG leans into recognisable visual cues such as body shape, ...

When the Next-Gen Iron humanoid was unveiled to the public earlier this month, strutting fluidly down the runway before a ...

A new two-layer language-model algorithm is helping robots break down tasks, refine actions on the fly, and execute movements ...

Commentary: The idea of a human-controlled robot in your home might sound weird, but perhaps it's not all that different from ...

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If we open a humanoid robot’s metal skull right now and replaced the regular old computer in there with one that has access to a large language model (LLM) — so that the robot is controlled by ...

In 2015, a jovial three-foot-tall robot with pool noodles for arms set out on what seemed like a simple mission. Using the kindness of strangers, this machine, called “hitchBOT” would spend months ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

Many lonely people would rather deal with a robot than interact with an actual human, according to research co-led by Newcastle University. Contrary to the common assumption that lonely people would ...