During a recent trip to Meta HQ, I took the opportunity to ask CTO Andrew Bosworth about its new robotics effort.

After four years of hype, Optimus shows some progress, yet the humanoid struggles to prove it's worth beyond staged demos.

Diligent Robotics co-founder Vivian Chu said her "minimum viable humanoid" robots are already helping hospital staff save ...

Unitree’s G1 robot can take hits, falls, and shoves, then quickly get back on its feet thanks to Anti-Gravity mode.

Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has teamed up with Nvidia to establish a new research hub in the United ...

R1 is the latest contraption to join the steadily expanding field of humanoid robots. Officially unveiled this week at a tech conference in Shanghai, China, R1 is from Robbyant, a unit of Ant Group, ...

One of the biggest hurdles in developing humanoid robots is the sheer amount of training data required. Teaching machines to act like humans demands massive video datasets. Collecting that data is ...

The inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games were held in Beijing earlier in the month. The event featured athletic challenges (such as track, football, and boxing), cognitive tests, and artistic ...

Meet Ameca, renowned as the 'world's most advanced' humanoid robot, now residing in Edinburgh. This innovative project aims to bridge the gap between humans and robots, enhancing mutual understanding.

In the latest episode of What the Future, we run down the best highlights and fails from the first World Humanoid Robot Games held last week in China. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video ...

In mid-August, Beijing’s National Speed Skating Oval – the “Ice Ribbon” built for the 2022 Winter Olympics – hosted a new kind of sporting event. For four days, more than 500 humanoid robots from 16 ...