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Over the next several years, humanoid robots will change the nature of work. Or at least, that’s what humanoid robotics companies have been consistently promising, enabling them to raise hundreds of ...

With Figure 03, we see images of a humanoid robot doing the dishes, serving drinks, or working at a hotel reception desk and our minds tend to fill in the gaps and assume the robot is acting like a ...

We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving ...

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 ...

At the forefront is Boston Dynamics, a Massachusetts-based robotics company backed by Hyundai Motor, which is set to deploy its bipedal robot, Atlas, at Hyundai’s EV plant in the state of Georgia this ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs, among others, are very bullish on the growth potential of the humanoid robot market. Rapid advances in AI have accelerated the timeline for ...

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As logistics leaders race toward automation, a new employee is stepping out onto the warehouse floor: the humanoid robot. With high-profile prototypes from Tesla, Figure AI, and Agility Robotics, the ...

Tesla's latest humanoid demonstration – a kung fu routine performed by its Optimus robot for actor Jared Leto – was clearly designed to impress. But, as dramatic and as thought-provoking as it was, ...

Able to stand, walk, run, wave, pick up and handle items, and adapt to the environment around it, the robot, affectionately known as Gee, doesn’t fail to get a reaction when it goes for outings on the ...