NVIDIA has now introduced two reference humanoids with different bodies, hands, sensors, and control systems. Does that undermine the whole point of creating a reference platform?
The Boston startup Spiritify says it’s begun mass producing its Joy AI companion robots.
Researchers from UCLA’s Robotics and Mechanisms Lab (RoMeLa) developed PhoneBot as an open-source platform that uses ordinary smartphones as robot brains.
Heading into 2027, Tesla says it’s finally scaling production of Optimus. It’s going to unprecedented lengths to prepare an army of Optimi for the real world.
Unitree’s robots keep getting more dangerous. The Chinese robotics leader just unleashed a more menacing version of its full-sized humanoid, …
Tuesday Labs, a startup founded by a former Boston Dynamics engineer, has started taking reservations for its cartoonlike robotic butler.
China’s new massive humanoid robot can lift half a ton, according to NeodraDynamics, the Beijing startup that built the beast named Neo1 that stands 4 meters (13 feet) and weighs 1,200 kg (2,654 lbs).
Norinco Group, the Chinese defense manufacturing giant, is training humanoid robots to become next-generation riot control officers as Beijing tightens its grip on public dissent.
The US military has officially begun field testing humanoid robots as the race to replace soldiers with machines escalates globally.
Foundation Future Industries sent me a cease-and-desist after I reported on the company’s claims about Department of War funding and humanoid robot deployments in Ukraine.
Sixty-three years ago, The Twilight Zone imagined a future in which humanoid robots replace human boxers. Desperate for money, an …