VLC developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf raised $5M led by Lightspeed for Kyber, an open-source SDK that controls remote machines with ultra-low latency. Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the lead developer of VLC Media ...

The robotics startup Figure AI livestreamed humanoid robots placing thousands of packages onto a conveyor belt for more than a week—a spectacle that included a robot competing against a human intern ...

Conventional robots navigate much like humans do, relying on detailed maps of the area they are in to get around. This allows the robot to maintain an accurate estimate of its own location, but comes ...

Unitree is a Chinese company known for making adorable, relatively affordable robots that dance and shuffle and such. Last night, it revealed its latest creation, which is something of a departure: a ...

While most warehouse robots still ferry goods to human pickers, Locus Robotics has aimed to flip the script with the debut of its Locus Array “robots-to-goods” system, which rolls an AI-powered arm ...

Meta has acquired humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) for an undisclosed sum, the social media giant said. “We acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a company at the frontier of ...

Last Sunday, at the Beijing E-Town Half Marathon, a red humanoid robot of a type named Lightning finished the course in 50 minutes and 26 seconds—faster than the human world record. Its long legs were ...

A humanoid robot aptly named Lightning made history on the streets of Beijing over the weekend, beating the human half-marathon world record by several minutes. Dozens of robots lined up for the ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Shanghai-based Agibot announced today that it shipped a staggering 5,000 humanoid robots in ...

The first lady, Melania Trump, believes that more children should be educated by “humanoid educators.” Melania Trump, the first lady, with Figure 3, a humanoid robot developed by Figure AI, an ...

Google's DeepMind division is partnering with Agile Robots to integrate its Gemini Robotics foundation models with Agile Robots’ hardware. The company aims to use the Agile Robot partnership to ...