Roomba maker iRobot cofounder Rodney Brooks argued that Musk's vision of an Optimus robot-filled future is "pure fantasy ...

Gemini Robotics 1.5 and Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5. The goal of the announcement was to illustrate how large language models can ...

The roboticist also points out how adult-human-sized humanoid robots pose significant safety challenges in shared human environments because their full-scale mass and powerful actuators could ...

Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying ...

The price tag is orders of magnitude cheaper than most robots in its class, which can run into tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now China’s Unitree Robotics, best known for its nimble ...

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

One of the biggest hurdles in developing humanoid robots is the sheer amount of training data required. Teaching machines to act like humans demands massive video datasets. Collecting that data is ...

PAL Robotics unveils its Kangaroo humanoid in a new demo, showing off balance, squats, and a surprising box-lifting test.

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