You can now buy your own humanoid robot and make your own videos of it doing backflips and such. Chinese startup UniTree was founded in 2016 by Wang Xingxing, who’d built a quadruped robot called XDog ...

More than 1,000 workers at General Motors' flagship Detroit assembly plant were idled, many of them indefinitely, as the company installed 50 robots. The United Auto Workers (UAW) union is calling the ...

General Motors has gutted its electric-vehicle ambitions and sidelined more than 1,000 jobs at its flagship Detroit assembly plant — while adding 50 robots, sparking outrage from labor unions. The ...

There's a new entrant in the race to build a general-purpose robot, and it does not look human. Robotics startup Genesis AI unveiled Eno on Tuesday, a wheeled robot with two arms, but instead of legs, ...

There’s a received piece of wisdom among militaries around the world that whatever new technologies appear, in the end, foot soldiers are what matters. As British Army officer Field Marshal Archibald ...

Humanoids may be winning marathons and getting factory jobs, but after spending a few days with around 100 different robots of all shapes and sizes, one thing was clear: There's a chasm separating ...

If you live in San Francisco, you will often get a glimpse of the future—commuting in a self-driving taxi, say. In Milton Keynes? Not so much. But the English city, best known for its many roundabouts ...

Humanoid robots just got another real job. This time, they are clocking in behind the scenes at a major retail operation. Figure AI has signed a commercial agreement with Catalyst Brands. That is the ...

A growing workforce of robot controllers is teaching humanoids to move like people so they can work in factories and homes. The humanoid robots are being taught how to do basic tasks: pouring coffee, ...

new video loaded: Should We Let Robots Kill People? transcript Are we ready for autonomous drones to make life-and-death decisions on the battlefield? Christian Brose, the chief strategy officer of ...

In a biology laboratory in Tokyo, ten robots conduct experiments, using their two arms to handle liquids, grow cells on plates and operate scientific instruments, among other basic tasks. The Robotics ...

At robot learning centers in China, people teach machines how to work in a variety of scenarios. Humanoid robots are part of Beijing's bigger industrial strategy to dominate global markets and supply ...