The next step in the evolution of generative AI technology will rely on ‘world models’ to improve physical outcomes in the real world.

But you can see the market appeal. A robot vacuum cleaner can’t climb stairs to clean an upstairs room. A robot arm that ...

Robust.AI co-founder Rodney Brooks, a pioneering roboticist and co-creator of the widely selling Roomba robot vacuum, ...

From expressive robot faces to factory deployments, these seven stories shaped how 2025 will be remembered in humanoid ...

Researchers and students developed a new AI model that generates motion in a variety of robots using simple text commands.

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, ...

“The humanoid space has a very, very big hill to climb,” said Cosima du Pasquier, founder and CEO of Haptica Robotics, which ...

Skana Robotics built a decision-making algorithm that helps unmanned vessels react and adapt to data from other vessels.

A team of MIT researchers created a speech-to-reality system that enables a robot to build furniture with just a simple ...

Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day. But ...