China is set to host what has been dubbed the world's first robot half-marathon in Beijing on April 13, prompting several of the country's leading robot developers to train and prepare their humanoids ...

A new research effort by Disney experts and university engineers shows how robots can now manage controlled landings when they fall. The project answers a key question in robotics about what happens ...

Scientists from the LASSIE project with their quadruped robot at White Sands National Park, New Mexico in August. The quadruped robot was able to scout and train autonomously. The work is part of NASA ...

A new handheld interface developed by MIT engineers enables a person to teach a robot new skills, using any of three training approaches: natural teaching (top left), kinesthetic training (middle), ...

Tech firms are racing to develop robot assistants that can take over our dreaded household chores. But teaching machines to perform these deceptively simple tasks is tedious. They need to observe the ...

China has turned a science fiction trope into industrial policy, opening a dedicated “robot school” where humanoid machines ...

AgiBot, a Chinese robotics firm, is beginning to embed homegrown AI systems like DeepSeek into humanoid robots at scale — touting a machine that can fold T-shirts today and, Beijing hopes, help ...

Humanoid robots have been getting a lot of buzz this year. But quadrupeds — the mechanical “dogs” — are emerging as the true proving ground for embodied artificial intelligence. These four-legged ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA and Carnegie Mellon's ASAP AI trains humanoid robots through simulation to replicate real-world movements, overcoming physics challenges to achieve agile motion. NVIDIA and Carnegie ...

A robot dog is being deployed to deter spray-painting on trains in Munich's rail system. Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the Munich S-Bahn are introducing Spot, a robot dog from Boston Dynamics, to help combat ...