The Kids Who Grew Up with Baymax Are Now Building Him
Many of today’s robotics leaders grew up inspired by The Terminator, but the next generation grew up with a very different and softer vision of the future: Baymax.
Mike Kalil
Agility Robotics Warns of Cash Crunch as Humanoid Race Heats Up
It looks like Figure AI founder Brett Adcock was onto something last year when he predicted that Agility Robotics would …
Can 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs Make Robots Think Like Humans?
Figure AI is planning an unprecedented datacenter buildout that could bring frontier AI supercomputer scale to humanoid robotics for the first time.
People Are Obsessed with Microduck. Will It Last?
Hugging Face reported more than 10,000 Microduck preorders in the first week, which amounts to over $4 million in revenue. The launch was unusually strong by consumer robot standards.
The Company Behind the World’s Fastest Robot Has Big Plans
In a few short years, Beijing’s state-backed Tiangong program has evolved from a clunky machine barely able to keep pace with a slow jogger to smashing human athletic records.
4,000 Robots Descend on Beijing as China’s Robotics Boom Explodes
Sparks flew, quite literally, as Beijing became the center of a rapidly accelerating global robotics race that just entered a new phase.
Is EngineAI China’s Next Humanoid Robotics Giant?
Chinese robotics startups are racing to become the next major player to tap markets for massive amounts of capital. Among the front of the pack is Shenzhen-based EngineAI, known for its T800 humanoids.
Unitree Says Its New ‘Superman’ Robot Pushes Beyond Human Limits
Unitree just introduced its new high-performance humanoid robot prototype, nicknamed Superman, saying it breaks the limits of humanity.
MX01: The World’s First Transformable Flying Humanoid Robot?
The new Chinese startup Arkshel Robotics just introduced what it calls the world’s first flying transformable humanoid robot.
Unitree’s Wang Xingxing is Now China’s Most Unusual Tech Billionaire
Unitree founder Wang Xingxing just became China’s latest tech billionaire as investors piled into his company’s blockbuster IPO on Shanghai’s STAR Market.
PaXini’s Smart Sole Gives EngineAI’s T800 a Humanlike Foot Sense
EngineAI collaborated with the fellow Shenzhen-based startup PaXini to turn the bottom of the robot’s foot into a touch-sensitive surface.