Tesla has shared a video of the progress of its Optimus humanoid robot, but it still looks like it is catching up to the competition. CEO Elon Musk has been telling shareholders that Optimus is a ...

Amazon has developed a new warehouse robot that uses touch to rummage around shelves to find the right product to ship to customers. The robot, called Vulcan, is a meaningful step toward making ...

The breakthrough, announced by Hugging Face co-founder Clément Delangue in a post on X, is the first commercially available open-source humanoid robot, news site Decrypt.co notes. In his X post ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Right before the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, I noticed a trend in robot vacuums. The suction power these robots were reporting ...

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Yes, the robotic vacuum is still a robot. But they have never been truly intelligent. That last piece in the puzzle has emerged with agentic AI – the ability to reason and initiate action ...

s robotics center, with a potential solution to this problem. "We start with a robot that can take 1 micrometer steps. So, if you picture a millimeter, a micrometer is one thousandth of a ...

Robot backflips are becoming commonplace, but a front flip is significantly more difficult than a backflip, as any gymnast can attest. Unlike humans, robots rely on precise sensor data and motor ...

The movie The Wild Robot features a robot with a quality that, in a different context, would put the audience on alert: an operating system that can convincingly mimic falling in love. The story ...

If a robot is going to excel at traversing multiple types of terrain, it shouldn't have an unadaptable "Jack of all trades, master of none" body shape. That's where the GOAT robot comes in ...

Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists have made a walking, jumping robot that pushes the boundaries of what small robots can do. The research glimpses a future where nimble microrobots ...

When multiple Oscar nominee Chris Sanders took on adapting Peter Brown’s beloved children’s book, “The Wild Robot,” he wanted to do something different visually than what he was seeing in ...