When we think about the existential threats of new technology, we’re usually thinking about something like the recent negotiations between Anthropic and the Pentagon over how AI can be used in the ...
Sunday is on a quest to build a household humanoid robot called Memo that helps with tasks like laundry and clearing the table. The company emerged from stealth late last year and already has 1,000 ...
Eduardo B. Sandoval is a Friend of The Conversation. Last year, Norwegian-US tech company 1X announced a strange new product: “the world’s first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform ...
AI’s concealed labor has repeatedly led us to overestimate the technology. Humanoid robots are entering a similar phase. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI.
A Chinese robotics company recently did something most tech firms would never dare attempt. Agibot put more than 200 robots on stage for a live one-hour televised event called Agibot Night. The gala ...
We knew that Honor is about to bring its oddball Robot Phone to this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. What we didn't know, however, that the company is also bringing its first-ever ...
China's humanoid robots impressed at the Spring Festival Gala earlier this week, shifting public sentiment. The robot's abilities displayed at the event were far more advanced than those shown just ...
The clip, recorded in the Hoxton area of East London, showed the "robot" interacting with young people whom appeared to be students, answering questions about its name and creator. One person who ...
The Chinese tech company is branching out from phones to robots, via its robot phone -- and it'll show them all off next week at MWC in Barcelona. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer ...
Fans of humanoid robots might want to catch a recent NBC News report on Unitree’s Lunar New Year celebration. It features chorus lines of robots performing feats of dexterity and coordination—kung fu, ...
China’s humanoid robots impressed attendants at the Spring Festival Gala. The robots were able to perform precise movements in kung fu and flips just one year after viral stumbles. Rapid advances in ...
Over the past 10 months, a Figure 02 humanoid robot at BMW's Spartanburg plant in South Carolina worked 10-hour shifts, five days a week, moving more than 90,000 sheet-metal components over roughly ...