An curved arrow pointing right. This walking robot looks like it just walked out of Transformers. The Method-2 bipedal robot is a prototype from Korean company Hancook Mirae Technology.

Agility Robotics' chief technology officer Jonathan Hurst imagines a future filled with walking robot assistants that could someday free people from monotonous errands like grocery shopping.

One thing they are still pretty bad at though is walking a straight line without ... Figure AI, one of the buzziest startups in the humanoid robot space, now says it has engineered a solution ...