Flexion Robotics, a startup founded by ex-Nvidia engineers, has a clever way of training robots to do useful work.

The goal is to accelerate the path to fully autonomous humanoid robots ... maybe even ones that are as smart as we are.

The body that work runs on is built for reach and stability: dual 7-degree-of-freedom (DoF) arms, a 4-DoF articulated torso with 0 to 1.9m of vertical reach, and a holonomic mobile base that lets ...

Humanoid robots, given their crowded internal geometries, can also benefit from 3D printing. Cooling channels and wiring ...

AI “world models” are the next frontier for computer scientists who see too many limitations in the AI language models behind ...

New funding supports development of embodied AI foundation models, commercial deployments and integrated robotics infrastructure, only embodied AI company backed by all four major Chinese internet tec ...

The first hotel run by robots will open its doors to the public next year. It comes as no surprise that it's happening in ...

Google DeepMind has recently introduced two new artificial intelligence (AI) models, Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 and Gemini Robotics 1.5. These new models are designed to enhance the capabilities of ...

Google LLC’s DeepMind research unit today announced a major update to a couple of its artificial intelligence models, which are designed to make robots more intelligent. With the update, intelligent ...

Robots have long excelled at repetitive factory tasks, but they have struggled with the messy ambiguity of everyday human instructions. Microsoft’s new Rho-alpha model is an attempt to close that gap, ...

The robot, a pair of disembodied arms with crablike pincers at the end, wasn’t supposed to pick up the bag. It had been told to do a single tedious job: open plastic bags on a conveyor belt and stuff ...