But you can see the market appeal. A robot vacuum cleaner can’t climb stairs to clean an upstairs room. A robot arm that ...

Step inside the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, and you find yourself in a space that is part children's nursery, part ...

Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks warns that the vision of humanoid robots as general assistants is unrealistic due to a ...

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, ...

There is also a dance studio, complete with a wood floor and large mirrors. Here scientists record the movements of human ...

This performance is powered by proprietary innovations — from knuckle modules and high-performance polymers to a multi-modal "sensing skin". This hardware foundation is extended through the "Open ...

Tutor’s first product, Cassie, is designed for a relatively simple task — loading and unloading shipping pallets laden with ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

To accelerate adoption across industry and research, SharpaWave runs on an open-source, developer-friendly software stack. The SharpaPilot app is fully compatible with major simulation platforms ...

So here we are: Roomba, the tech that put consumer robots on the map, now feels relatively ho-hum — one brand among many automated vacuums on the market — while the dream of an Optimus-esque bot to ...

Foundation plans to build 50,000 Phantom humanoid robots for factories and the US military, blurring the line between industrial automation and warfare.

The latest production setback for Elon Musk’s Tesla Optimus humanoid robot has nothing to do with AI bottlenecks or battery ...