For a young Tixiao Shan growing up in China, a broken Nintendo 64 controller wasn’t the end of a game—it was the beginning of a journey to understand how electronics work. That drive has since ...

Building on the country’s electric vehicle industry, Chinese companies are making robot parts at a scale and price point others can’t match. China’s lead in humanoid robots was evident at last month’s ...

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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 ...

Space changes the rules for almost everything, including how a robot should move. On Earth, legs help us stand, balance and walk across a room. In microgravity, those same legs lose much of their ...

BYD is quietly developing humanoid robots, according to people familiar with the matter, signaling that China's largest electric vehicle (EV) maker is preparing to extend its ambitions beyond ...

Nvidia has entered the humanoid robotics race. Through a partnership with Chinese startup Unitree, the U.S. chipmaker is developing a robotics system with an integrated reference design focused on ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is backing a stealthy physical AI startup run by former Tesla and Meta employees, in the latest sign that investors are rushing into robotics. The startup, called Alfred, is also ...

Be not afraid, human. A new robot developed at Duke University isn’t intended to strike fear into the hearts of anyone who beholds it, but more closely resembles one of those terrifying biblically ...

If you could buy a humanoid robot for less than a smartphone, would you? Would you buy several robots to handle cooking, cleaning, babysitting, and even your job? This is the pitch being made by Zhou ...

Researchers may be able to start running experiments without ever setting foot in a lab. New technology, including artificial intelligence, is increasingly allowing them to delegate all kinds of tasks ...

China has officially launched its first general-purpose household robot, called “Shiguang S1,” in Wuhan’s Optics Valley. The robot was introduced on May 20 by Chinese robotics company GigaBrain and is ...