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It’s easy to be charmed by the first delivery robot you see. I was driving with my kids in our Chicago neighborhood when I spotted one out the window last year. It was a cheerful pink…
The newest humanoid robot on the scene, Sprout, is not designed to carry boxes or stack shelves. Instead, this charming and relatively cheap model, roughly the size of a 9-year-old child,…
Later I connect with Wang Xingxing, Unitree’s CEO, who, citing his poor English, agreed to talk via the messaging app WeChat. Wang is something of a celebrity in China. In February 2025,…
Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive, and “boring, honestly,” says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the commercial…
When OpenAI declared a “code red” this month to refocus its teams on competing with Google, I couldn’t help but think back to December three years ago when the companies’ roles were…
Robots from around the world converged on Silicon Valley to provide a glimpse of a potential future. Two robots picked up T-shirts with orange-tipped claws, then neatly folded and piled…
Unloading trucks and shipping containers at warehouse docks is mostly done by people and remains a key bottleneck in the shipping industry United Parcel Service (UPS) will invest US$120…
The humans controlling the droids have them repeat each task over and over, as a computer system logs their every move Home economics meets Star Wars at this “training centre” in the city…
The authority’s support will focus on improving integration and interoperability Five hundred local enterprises will receive support from the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) in…
You can’t throw a pacifier in American discourse without hitting someone talking about how having kids changed them. From Pete Buttigieg to Sarah Palin to the legions of guys who had…
Google DeepMind has hired the former chief technology officer of Boston Dynamics as the company pushes deeper into robotics. Aaron Saunders, who is partly responsible for giving the world…
Memo may not be the world’s fastest barista, but it is impressive—for a robot. I recently watched as Memo, a new home robot from a company called Sunday Robotics, made coffee in an…
As more robots start showing up in warehouses, offices, and even people’s homes, the idea of large language models hacking into complex systems sounds like the stuff of sci-fi nightmares.…
The real question is how effectively AgiBot’s algorithms can teach its robots new tricks. Using reinforcement learning to teach a robot tasks that require improvisation generally requires…
CHENNAI, India — Now that artificial intelligence has mastered almost everything we do online, it needs help learning how we physically move around in the real world. A growing global army…
European roboticists today released a powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that acts as a brain for industrial robots—helping them grasp and manipulate things with new…
Ask the most bullish representatives of big AI companies, and they’ll tell you that robotic colleagues and house staff are just around the corner. A massive market for robotic aids,…
Aarian Marshall: Hello. Michael Calore: Given today's topic, I'm curious to know what is the most unexpected thing you've both ordered through a delivery app? Louise Matsakis: So I was on…
On said Tuesday that Sam Wenger is stepping down as chief operating officer after eight years at the company. The Roger Federer-backed sneaker brand has named chief innovation officer…
There’s no doubt we are witnessing a quiet shift in labor: artificial intelligence is no longer confined to experimental labs or consumer chatbots, it is now eroding the foundation of…
Existing methods for training robotic AI models, such as having algorithms learn to control a particular system through teleoperation or in simulation, do not generate enough data, Pathak…
Michael Calore: Yeah. That's a whole other topic. Kylie Robison: Yes, it is. Will, what do you recommend? Will Knight: I'm going to recommend what I think is a genuinely useful home robot.…
A renewed focus on robots would suggest that OpenAI believes reaching artificial general intelligence (AGI)—AI that exceeds human intelligence—may require developing algorithms that are…
Then there’s Eric Chong, a 37-year-old who has a background in dentistry and previously cofounded a startup that simplifies medical billing for dentists. He was placed on the “machine”…
