EV maker Tesla shared the latest update on its humanoid robot Optimus on X (formerly Twitter) on December 3. The video clip shared by the official Tesla Optimus account and Elon Musk showed the humanoid running in a lab, with other robots lined up in the background.

When the Next-Gen Iron humanoid was unveiled to the public earlier this month, strutting fluidly down the runway before a gobsmacked audience, it made headlines – but not for the reasons its creators at Xpeng had hoped.

Humanoid robots now jog, jump, and balance mid-air, with Tesla Optimus 3 on display, helping you see where home and workplace help is headed.

China’s carmakers are rushing into humanoid robotics, creating lifelike machines that walk, talk, and challenge what we think of as “alive"

True robotic dexterity will open up markets that automation has barely touched, such as This is where robotics evolves from repetitive to relational. We need to build machines that learn from people and adapt to them,

Commentary: The idea of a human-controlled robot in your home might sound weird, but perhaps it's not all that different from what we're used to.

A new two-layer language-model algorithm is helping robots break down tasks, refine actions on the fly, and execute movements with greater human-like reasoning, showing strong gains in both simulated chores and real-world robotic arm tests.

Teddy Warner, 19, has always been interested in robotics. His family was in the industry, and he says he “grew up” working in a machinist shop while in high school. Now Warner is building a robotics company of his own, Intempus, that looks to make ...

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A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, responded to and learned from voice commands from the team ...