Figure AI says three of its humanoid robots crossed more than 24 hours of continuous autonomous operation after a test that was supposed to last only eight hours kept running. The California-based ...

Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup developing artificial intelligence models for robots, as part of a major initiative to build humanoid technology. The social ...

A humanoid robot aptly named Lightning made history on the streets of Beijing over the weekend, beating the human half-marathon world record by several minutes. Dozens of robots lined up for the ...

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For years, humanoid robots felt like something you watched on social media. Impressive, yes. Practical, not quite. That line just got blurry. A new factory in China is now producing humanoid robots at ...

Google's DeepMind division is partnering with Agile Robots to integrate its Gemini Robotics foundation models with Agile Robots’ hardware. The company aims to use the Agile Robot partnership to ...

Agile Robots has landed a partnership with Google DeepMind to develop robots with the artificial intelligence research lab, the latest in a string of robotics companies to do so. Munich, Germany-based ...

Mind Robotics, an industrial robotics lab spun out of the electric vehicle maker Rivian, has raised $500 million in a Series A funding round co-led by venture firms Accel and Andreessen Horowitz. The ...

At Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the nurse assistant stopped by a patient's room to pick up some lab samples while dropping off toiletries. Then, as the helper's pixilated blue eyes ...

Most robots have fixed body designs that cannot adapt to new environments or survive damage, making them fragile outside controlled settings. Researchers used AI-driven evolution and Lego-like modular ...

AI’s concealed labor has repeatedly led us to overestimate the technology. Humanoid robots are entering a similar phase. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI.

The CodeCell C6 Drive, as overviewed by microbots, is a compact all-in-one robotics module designed to streamline the development of intelligent machines. Measuring just 22.5mm x 18.5mm x 9.4mm and ...