Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

Chinese EV maker Xpeng debuted its walking humanoid robot Iron at the AI Day event. It's so lifelike, they had to cut it open ...

No robot can reproduce the way that algal cells, begonias, and people can. However, an automaton that’s little more than a stack of blocks has shown that it, too, can make more of its own kind.

Robot self-awareness is one step closer today after engineers at Columbia University built a robotic arm that can imagine itself. The ability to recognise the self and imagine that self in different ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Michael Michera The goal for this workshop is to design a robot concept that's rich in ...

Gen AI models aren’t just good for creating pictures—they can be fine-tuned to generate useful robot training data, too. Generative AI models can produce images in response to prompts within seconds, ...

Robots have been masters of manufacturing at speed and precision for decades, but give them a seemingly simple task like stacking shelves, and they quickly get stuck. That's changing, though, as ...

When it comes to locomotion, robots don’t typically do more than one thing at a time. Walkers stick to walking, and rollers stick to rolling. However, this simple method of enabling a cheetah-style ...

Tesla has teased its Optimus humanoid robot prototype with a new image, ahead of a full unveiling planned for September 30. Earlier this year, CEO Elon Musk announced “Tesla AI Day #2” with “many cool ...