While investors are busy pouring billions of dollars into humanoid robots, an MIT roboticist who has been making robots for three decades claims they are wasting their money. Rodney Brooks, the ...

Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying ...

We've all seen what artificial intelligence can do on our screens: generate art, carry out conversations and help with written tasks. Soon, AI will be doing more in the physical world. Gartner, a ...

Investors are pouring billions into companies pitching humanoid robots, but functional versions are decades away.

When a robotics pioneer who has spent decades building humanoid machines recommends that you stand at least nine feet away ...

With AI beginning to look as if it has reached a deployment plateau — if not a lessening of hype — high-tech promoters and ...

“With a robot with a high level of anthropomorphism, consumer empathy generates more negative responses and a lower level of ...

Rodney Brooks, a robotics pioneer and co-founder of iRobot, warns that today’s humanoid robots are still unsafe for humans.

South Korea's Naver Corporation is teaming up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop a bipedal humanoid robot, highlighting the nation's accelerating push into physical AI.

Count iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) co-founder Rodney Brooks as one of the skeptics that humanoid robots will be able to deliver on all the promises being made across the industry. Brooks also is the ...

During a recent trip to Meta HQ, I took the opportunity to ask CTO Andrew Bosworth about its new robotics effort.