Startups from outside the UK are also contributing. Denmark’s Pliantics will create soft linear actuators, which will serve ...

According to Joe Altepeter, DARPA’s quantum benchmarking program manager, the agency’s evaluation team has been scrutinizing the companies’ approaches since 2023 when they were selected to ...

Rodney is what is sometimes called a blind mule, a victim who was persuaded to transport money or contraband for a criminal gang, an unwitting participant in a serious crime. Journalist Mariana van ...

A (still growing) paper list of Evolutionary Computation (EC) published in some (rather all) top-tier (and also EC-focused) journals and conferences. For EC-focused publications, only ...

The inspiration for this article comes from a January 29, 2025, LinkedIn post by robotics entrepreneur Peter Kappes, which reads as follows: “Unitree Robotics is always impressing, as China ...

A Yangge folk dance performed by robots during the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Snake on Tuesday night has vowed users of some overseas social media, as the performance, using an ...

Humanoid robots may become commonplace in the future as companies plan to mass-produce these human-like machines. China’s UBTech Robotics is gearing up to mass-produce its humanoid robots by the ...

At the 2025 CCTV Spring Festival Gala last night, renowned film director Zhang Yimou collaborated with Hangzhou Unitree Robotics and Xinjiang Arts Institute to present a program titled Yang BOT. More ...

This raises an important question: How many robots can one person manage before becoming overwhelmed? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) was worried they could end up in a ...

SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to lead a $500 million funding round for Skild AI, a startup building robotics software, according to people familiar with the matter. The startup would be valued ...

Tracking down and preventing money laundering is a slow, time-consuming, manual procedure. DARPA is hoping it can provide some relief for exhausted analysts by automating the process. The Pentagon's ...

And it wasn't the only artificial intelligence company making headlines for supposedly ignoring instructions in robots.txt files to avoid scraping web content on certain sites. Around the same ...