Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making bigger promises.

Boston Dynamics is an American engineering and robotics company known for developing highly advanced mobile robots capable of ...

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The humanoid Atlas robot performs some strange contortions to get up from a lying position. An engineer explains why.

Why would one of the most sophisticated humanoid robots in the world want to get up from the floor in a way no human ever would? The answer lies deep in the interaction between sensor limitations, ...

Elektro didn’t come to fruition, but we’re nearly at the point where the future finally arrives. Earlier this year, Beijing ...

Analog cameras are nowhere near as efficient as biological eyes. If you’ve ever handled a single-lens reflex (SLR) camera, especially if it had a zoom lens attached, you know how heavy they are, and ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin The global race to develop and deploy humanoid robots is no longer being led by nations but by cities.

A closer look at Atlas’s unconventional get-up motion shows how the robot tests balance and hardware before committing to a ...

See new human-shaped robots, including MIMA’s skill-glove training for dishes and laundry, so you can gauge real home-ready ...

As AI browsers like OpenAI's Atlas and Perplexity's Comet show promise, they still fall short of replacing traditional ...

If you’re going to kill animals for food, don’t waste their parts – that’s just rude. Use everything, snout-to-tail, and not ...