Robotics software startup Skild AI Incorporated has drawn investments from MNC Samsung Electronics and chips major Nvidia Corporation, totalling $35 million, as both companies seek a...
Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta has started making significant investments in the humanoid robots category and is forming a team with Reality Labs’ hardware division to conduct the...
Inside the robotics laboratory of the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a group of robots are busy cooking. There is nothing special about that;...
No one talks about these machines getting depressed or overworked, and seldom do we think of them as having rights that our human household helps enjoy....
THE ROBOTS are coming! In science fiction that is usually an ominous warning. In the real world, it is a prediction—and a welcome one. The field...
Then, around 15 years ago, came the realisation that other means of locomotion were possible. “Zoomorphic” robots mined the animal kingdom for inspiration, piggybacking on evolution’s...
China has stuck with it, though. In November the government published a plan calling for the mass production of humanoids by 2025. The country’s love of...
Such transformations have happened before. With the emergence of the scientific method in the 17th century, researchers came to trust experimental observations, and the theories they...
“Thirty years from now we will laugh at our generation of humans, putting products together by hand,” predicts Lior Susan, the boss of Bright Machines, a...
With the advent of ChatGPT, the discussions around the capabilities of AI have gained momentum with governments mulling over the idea of regulating it, while the...
Andrews, a visual arts teacher at the school, said she initially thought the robot was taking photos of the graduates. She was taken aback when her...