What happens when you give AI coding agents a lab full of robotic arms, some compute resources, and a “generous token budget” ...

We’ve talked before about number stations — mysterious shortwave transmitters repeating numbers, presumably for clandestine ...

A weird 20-legged machine could change how scientists think about the ideal robot form. For decades, roboticists have been inspired by the natural world, building machines that resemble humans, dogs, ...

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 ...

China’s robotics pioneers are rapidly expanding beyond the usual factory surroundings and into more challenging terrains: the unstructured, dynamic and complex world of domestic household chores.

Chinese engineers have built a mecha-style robot that can quickly transition from two legs to four while carrying people, resembling the power-loader exoskeletons from Aliens or the utility-style ...

The robotics startup Figure AI livestreamed humanoid robots placing thousands of packages onto a conveyor belt for more than a week—a spectacle that included a robot competing against a human intern ...

At last, the Jetsons are happening. Everyone’s long-held dream of having a humanoid robot at home to do all the household chores is almost here. Chinese tech firm GigaAI has announced the (allegedly) ...

There is a whirr, a flurry of dust, a pause as the grainy image recalibrates, and then a devastating blast. Underground, dozens of miles away, veterans of the most brutal urban battles in Ukraine, of ...

For the first time, BMW will use humanoid robots for car manufacturing in Europe. Two robots, made by Hexagon Robotics, are planned to work in production from the summer. They're currently in a test ...

A region known for its lack of walkability now has more obstacles for pedestrians to contend with Robots have taken over Los Angeles. It’s not just the AI-generated videos that have caused angst in ...