Inside a lab in the picturesque Swiss town of Vevey, a scientist gives tiny clumps of human brain cells the nutrient-rich ...

It’s a bizarre sight: With a short burst of light, a sponge-shaped robot scoots across a tiled surface. Flipped on its back, it repeatedly twitches as if doing sit-ups. By tinkering with the light’s ...

Open source language models are crucial to AI innovation. Can open robotics models do the same for physical machines?

We’ve been watching Boston Dynamics’ Atlas pull off backflips since 2017. Today, Figure’s humanoid can load a washing machine, low-cost $6,000 bipedal bots are hitting the market, and pilots are ...

Current AI technology has hit a wall that prevents it from reaching artificial general intelligence. The next design leap involves adding a type of complexity that attempts to mimic the way the human ...

A French startup named Robeauté has just raised about $29 million to develop a truly groundbreaking neurosurgical microrobot. Imagine a device no bigger than a grain of rice that can carefully ...

QUT robotics researchers have developed a new robot navigation system that mimics neural processes of the human brain and uses less than 10 per cent of the energy required by traditional systems. In a ...

Unicorn startup Skild AI has finally unveiled the robot “brain” it’s been quietly working on since 2023. Skild Brain is the startup’s new general-purpose AI model, designed to power a wide range of ...

Michael Milford receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Australian Economic Accelerator, the Queensland Government, Amazon, Ford Motor Company, iMOVE CRC, the DAAD Australia-Germany ...