The construction industry is rife with opportunity for robotics, but the technology hasn't broken in at scale yet.

Vention's new Physical AI Lab will focus on advancing robotic manipulation from research to scalable production-line ...

In a remote corner of southern Tripura, a government girls’ school is quietly changing what rural education can look like.

Jianlan Luo, 33, has expanded on standard techniques used in reinforcement learning to come up with new, better ways to teach robots many different tasks more quickly. He also created a system that ...

Shackleton crater, near the lunar south pole, is about 21 kilometers wide and more than four kilometers deep. Parts of its ...

Happy Labor Day. Your job may be doomed. OpenAI has been warning about this possibility for quite a while. Back in 2023, when ...

If you’re anything like me, the World Humanoid Robot Games are a highlight of your sporting calendar. First, though, let’s marvel at some of the more dramatic happenings, which have been all over the ...

A robot from the Beijing Humanoid–HUST team won the first humanoid robot weightlifting title after lifting 16 kilograms, according to a competition report. The robot started with a 15-kilogram weight ...

A humanoid robot inside Beijing's National Speed Skating Oval broke Usain Bolt's 100-meter world record two days ago. On Monday, a different robot picked up a 15 kg (33.1 lb) barbell and fell toward ...

Samsung Electronics has begun operating a dedicated physical AI research lab focused on humanoid control and manipulation, according to South Korean news outlet Edaily... Some subscribers prefer to ...

Researchers from the UT and Radboudumc have steered a tiny screw-shaped robot through real brain tissue, controlled only by a magnet outside the body. The test used sheep brain tissue in the lab. The ...

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