The image of a robotics engineer warning that a prototype could crush a human skull is a vivid one, but the hard evidence ...

Companies are rushing to develop humanoid robots for a market which is expected to surpass $5 trillion by 2050, but there are ...

In a controlled impact test, Figure AI’s F.02 humanoid robot struck with forces twenty times above the human pain threshold-more than twice the biomechanical limit required to fracture an adult skull.

The principal robotic safety engineer, Robert Gruendel, had warned top executives in September — including CEO Brett Adcock and chief engineer Kyle Edelberg — that the robots “were powerful enough to ...