A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...

This shows how robots could learn complex, human-like skills from a single demonstration—opening doors to safer, more ...

Robots are getting more advanced all the time, and the range of activities that they are able to complete is constantly expanding. The San Francisco Gate recently reported on an AI-powered robot that ...

AI-powered humanoid robots are being rolled out across different industries, with some in the industry saying widespread adoption is here.

People who care informally for sick or disabled friends and relatives often become invisible in their own lives. Focusing on ...

Reinforcement learning—the fancy AI industry term for trial and error—was used to train it, including looking at videos of ...

For Elon Musk, the future of Tesla isn't its global fleet of EVs. It's Optimus, the humanoid robot designed to help humans ...

The humanoid Tien Kung robot tests running shoes and determines performance data. This data is better and more readily available than that of human testers.

Another day, another humanoid robot breakthrough. While the U.S. and China have a growing number of firms developing cutting-edge humanoid robots — Boston Dynamics, Figure, Unitree, and EngineAI among ...

An Apple research paper suggests that humanoid robots can be more effectively trained with human instructors as well as robot demonstrators, which is part of a new combined approach the company calls ...

A whole-body control foundation model could help launch humanoid robots toward general-purpose capability, says Agility ...

The competition among tech companies, research institutions, and schools ran in Beijing from Aug. 15 to Aug. 17.