At GTC Berlin last week, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang argued that the robotics industry needs standardized hardware to accelerate development. “Building a special configuration for each one of the diverse ...

Researchers from UCLA’s Robotics and Mechanisms Lab (RoMeLa) developed PhoneBot as an open-source platform that uses ordinary smartphones as robot brains. Their goal was to prove that smartphones ...

Unitree’s robots keep getting more dangerous. The Chinese robotics leader just unleashed a more menacing version of its full-sized humanoid, the H2, which debuted just a year ago as a fashion-forward ...

The Boston startup Spiritify says it’s begun mass producing its Joy AI companion robots. The doll-sized companions cost $699 plus yearly subscription fees from $599 for homes and $1,699-$5,700 for ...

For more than five years, Elon Musk has been setting the bar almost impossibly high for Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot. The world’s richest man touched off a global race toward humanlike machines that ...

China’s new massive humanoid robot can lift half a ton. That’s according to NeodraDynamics, the Beijing startup that built the beast named Neo1 that stands 4 meters (13 feet) and weighs 1,200 kg ...

Tuesday Labs, a startup founded by a former Boston Dynamics engineer, has started taking reservations for its cartoonlike robotic butler. The robot, called Voxel Series-1, is being developed to handle ...

Heading into 2027, Tesla says it’s finally scaling production of Optimus. It’s going to unprecedented lengths to prepare an army of Optimi for the real world.

It looks like Figure AI founder Brett Adcock was onto something last year when he predicted that Agility Robotics would be out of business within 12 months. Though Oregon-based Agility hasn’t gone ...

Norinco Group, the Chinese defense manufacturing giant, is training humanoid robots to become next-generation riot control officers as Beijing tightens its grip on public dissent. As the Chinese ...

The CEO of the $39B humanoid startup Figure AI has reportedly launched a new artificial intelligence lab called Hark with $100 million of his own capital. Citing an internal memo sent to Figure ...