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China's Unitree achieves a robotics milestone with its electric humanoid robot, H1, executing a flawless backflip.

Saudi Arabia unveils culturally-coded humanoid Sara, designed for home use and programmed to avoid sensitive topics.

At SXSW Jeff Cardenas, CEO of Austin-based Apptronik along with Shaun Azimi, of NASA’s discussed the possibilities of humanoid robots in space.

The creators of the chatbot ChatGPT want to bring their artificial intelligence software to humanoid robots. The start-up Figure wants to use OpenAI to develop new AI models for its machines, which can walk upright and already perform complex movements with their mechanical hands. In January, Figure agreed with BMW to supply robots for use in car production in the US state of South Carolina in future. OpenAI's AI software is trained with huge amounts of data. Figure recently demonstrated in...

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is looking to fuse its artificial intelligence systems into the bodies of humanoid robots as part of a new deal with robotics startup Figure. Sunnyvale, California-based Figure announced the partnership Thursday along with $675 million in venture capital funding from a group that includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as well as Microsoft, chipmaker Nvidia and the startup-funding divisions of Amazon, Intel and OpenAI. Figure is less than two years old and doesn't have a c...

Way back in the mists of time when I was a young lad circa the middle of the last century, towards the end of the previous millennium, one of the things that drove my ambitions to become an engineer was my desire to work with robots.

Previous attempts to build such robots led to ‘broken tendons’

(Reuters) -Robotics startup Figure said on Thursday it raised $675 million in a funding round from investors including Nvidia, Microsoft and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos at a valuation of $2.6 billion. Sunnyvale, California-based Figure also said it signed a collaboration with OpenAI to develop generative artificial intelligence for its humanoid robots. Other companies involved in the Figure funding include OpenAI Startup Fund, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Parkway Venture Capital, Intel...

The robots reshaping our world are tackling a wide spectrum of tasks, from factory to warehouse, urban and the field to space exploration and beyond.

Aaron Edsinger, the former Google Robotics director who now serves at Hello Robot’s CEO, isn’t attempting to build the universal home robot -- at least not now. Mobile manipulation is a huge, huge bottleneck to the development of a proper home robot.