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The price tag is orders of magnitude cheaper than most robots in its class, which can run into tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now China’s Unitree Robotics, best known for its nimble ...

Having nailed the laundry — including loading the washer and later folding everything up — the Figure 02 humanoid robot is now taking on the task of loading the dishwasher. And it seems to have nailed ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece — With jerky determination, robots played soccer, wowed children with shadowboxing skills and shot arrows earlier this month at the birthplace of the Olympic Games. As they ...

Hot off of proudly announcing that he had replaced 4,000 people with AI at his company, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff posted a video of Tesla’s humanoid robot, Optimus, calling it a “productivity ...

Nohtal Partansky’s Sorting Robotics equipment is used by some of the biggest names in the cannabis industry, from Stiiizy to Tilray. Now he’s gearing up for when Big Tobacco is ready to roll. Inside ...

North American robot orders surge 4.3% in the first half of 2025, driven by automotive industry investments and collaborative robot growth, which captured nearly 25% market share. New data from the ...

Runway has spent the past seven years building visual-generating tools for the creative industry. Now, it sees a new opportunity for its technology: robotics. As Runway’s world models started to ...

Robots can serve pizza, crawl over alien planets, swim like octopuses and jellyfish, cosplay as humans, and even perform surgery. But can they walk on water? Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing ...

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is increasingly positioned his company as one centered on robotics. Thibaud Moritz/AFP via Getty Images Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang knows a thing or two about spotting the next big ...

The machines continue to rise. Researchers used artificial intelligence (AI) to train a robotic program to do parts of a gallbladder removal surgery, or a cholecystectomy. The robotic surgeon ...

new video loaded: Melania Trump Says ‘the Robots Are Here’ transcript The first lady, Melania Trump, issued a warning about the future of artificial intelligence during a meeting with tech executives ...