Boston Dynamics Wednesday announced a partnership designed to bring improved reinforcement learning to its electric Atlas humanoid robot. The tie-up is with the Robotics & AI Institute (RAI ...

Carnegie Mellon University and NVIDIA have teamed up to develop a new training technique that enables humanoid robots to perform complex athletic movements with unprecedented agility—from Cristiano ...

OpenAI’s trademark application also mentions robots — specifically “user-programmable humanoid robots” and “humanoid robots having communication and learning functions for assisting and ...

“It’s happening right now around all of us: the new AI world. I am a big believer in not letting robots dream for us. Robots cannot reflect the human condition for us. That is a dead end if an ...

But the word "robot" was first introduced by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in his 1921 play R.U.R., which stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots).

Hangzhou-based Unitree forecasts a breakthrough in humanoid robot capabilities by 2026, when these automatons are enabled with more advanced perception, comprehension and task-execution capabilities.

Elon Musk says that Tesla aims to build 10,000 Optimus robots this year, but he admits that it is an ambitious goal. With Tesla’s automotive business being down last year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk ...

Robotics startup Figure has said it could ship 100,000 humanoid robots in the next four years after signing “one of the biggest US companies” as its new customer. The new partnership gives Figure ...

The CEO of one of the leading manufacturers of humanoid robots says it has signed a second commercial customer that is “one of the biggest U.S. companies.” Figure CEO Brett Adcock also said ...

They have fused Chinese traditional culture with Unitree Robotics, with their robots dancing and twirling silk handkerchiefs in celebration of Chinese New Year.” Speaking of that Chinese New ...

At the fourth quarter earnings call Wednesday, the Tesla CEO and other executives also shared insight into the production of its Optimus humanoid robots and a more affordable vehicle model.