Rodney Brooks, the cofounder of Roomba vacuum creator iRobot, said the idea of humanoid robots as catchall assistants, the ...

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

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

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

A Chinese robotics company is capturing global attention after showcasing a humanoid robot head with shockingly lifelike ...

Meta's chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth said robotics software could be an 'AR-sized bet,' following the company ...

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 ...

Unitree Robotics has launched the R1, a remarkable humanoid robot capable of walking, running, dancing, cartwheeling, and even kung-fu kicks. It can also respond to voice commands and hold basic ...

A partnership with tech company Telexistence is combining robotics and generative AI to try to address staffing challenges.

Between robotic companies shutting down, large funding rounds, and new product releases, there was plenty of robotic news in September.

People aged 65 and older already make up about 15 percent of its 1.4 billion citizens, according to United Nations data. Demographers expect China to join Japan and South Korea as a "super-aged" ...

Unitree have a number of robotic offerings, and are one of the first manufacturers offering humanoid robotic platforms. It ...