Humanoid robots have quietly crossed a threshold from lab demos to real industrial work, and the software making that leap possible is Google’s Gemini family of AI models. Instead of being teleoperated or locked into rigid scripts,

Figure, maker of the humanoid robot Figure 02, unveiled its new Helix AI in a video showing two robots working together to put away groceries. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET. He covers future tech, sustainability and the ...

The SwitchBot Onero H1 is an embodied AI robot -- that is, a humanoid robot meant to eliminate the need for humans to do housework. Think of Rosie the Robot from The Jetsons -- the Onero H1 is like a tall, less tinny version of that: a wheeled robot that can do anything from laundry to dishes to picking up your kids' toys.

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While large language models (LLMs) have mastered text (and other modalities to some extent), they lack the physical "common sense" to operate in dynamic, real-world environments. This has limited the deployment of AI in areas like manufacturing and ...

Home-ready robots are just starting to be commercialised, but many issues still stand in their way – from cost, utility and customer perception, to privacy and security worries

An American firm that makes powerful GPUs is in talks with Foxconn about deploying humanoid robots at a facility. It’s expected that the plan is to develop Nvidia’s new GB300 AI servers with the help of humanoid robots at the new Foxconn facility in ...

Exotec makes the Skypod robot, a functional piece of tech serving companies including Gap, Carrefour, Uniqlo and Decathlon. Mr Moulin said that when it comes to warehouses and factories, humanoid robots are destined for the scrapheap.

Robotics startup 1X Technologies has developed a new generative model that can make it much more efficient to train robotics systems in simulation. The model, which the company announced in a new blog post, addresses one of the important challenges of ...

Walking, talking humanoid robots that were once firmly the domain of science fiction are on their way. In fact, a Morgan Stanley report recently predicted that 13 million human robots will be among us by 2035, rising to one billion by 2050. But we probably ...

Atlas, the humanoid robot famous for its parkour and dance routines, has recently begun demonstrating something altogether more subtle but also a lot more significant: It has learned to both walk and grab things using a single artificial intelligence model.