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 ...

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

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 ...

The roboticist also points out how adult-human-sized humanoid robots pose significant safety challenges in shared human environments because their full-scale mass and powerful actuators could ...

This summer, I found myself in the strange position of watching a humanoid robot try to load laundry. It squatted beside a ...

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

It's been a goal for as long as humanoids have been a subject of popular imagination—a general-purpose robot that can do rote ...

Unitree has expanded the martial arts repertoire of its humanoid robot G1 – with a range of acrobatic abilities.

Chinese robotics startup Robotera, backed by Tsinghua University, has officially launched its next-generation full-sized ...