Karl Price, mechanical engineer for Atlas, demonstrated the updated three-fingered gripper. The second-generation device has seven degrees of freedom and seven actuators, with two actuators for each ...

The robot, built by local robotics firm OryLab and called OriHime, offers guided walking tours to visitors to Japan’s capital ...

It's been a goal for as long as humanoids have been a subject of popular imagination—a general-purpose robot that can do rote ...

Google's humanoids are now capable of carrying out complex, multi-step tasks using the newly released Gemini 1.5 model family ...

Trial and error was the basis for Robot Drummer’s learning, with the researchers employing reinforcement learning (RL), a ...

“Futuristic humanoids working in homes, businesses, and public spaces fuel people's interest," says Takayuki Ito, President of the International Federation of Robotics. “Since our environment is ...

The company behind ChatGPT is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears to be ...

Until now, robots have been able to walk on flat surfaces. Even then, they've needed almost constant human guidance. These ...

A Chinese company has unveiled a new humanoid robotic head that is so realistic it can make facial expressions that blur the line between man and machine.

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Investors are pouring billions into companies pitching humanoid robots, but functional versions are decades away.

Humanoids are considered to be the next big thing in robotics: China, the world's largest market for industrial robots, has set out specific targets for its plans to mass-produce humanoids. Meanwhile, ...