For a generation of scientists raised watching Star Wars, there’s a disappointing lack of C-3PO-like droids wandering around our cities and homes. Where are the humanoid robots fuelled with common ...

On a metallic door in San Francisco’s Mission District, a single character—“π”—offers a cryptic clue as to the virtuous circle of labor taking place beyond. The door opens to reveal furious activity ...

As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate many kinds of grunt work. More than 540,000 new industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2023, taking the number of ...

It’s becoming a little easier to build sophisticated robotics projects at home. Earlier this week, AI dev platform Hugging Face released an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA. Trained on ...

Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics On-Device, a vision-language-action (VLA) foundation model designed to run locally on robot hardware. The model features low-latency inference and can be ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Robots have long been the backbone of manufacturing—welding car frames, assembling ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skild AI, an AI robotics company building a scalable foundation model for robotics, today announced it has closed a $300M Series A funding round. The round was led by ...

Today, Xpeng held its AI Day 2025 at its new headquarters in Guangzhou. The automaker is positioning itself as ...

Nvidia has unveiled a new model which could form the foundation of future humanoid robotics projects, representing a step forward toward a reality of generalist robots. The Nvidia Isaac Groot N1 model ...

Alphabet’s artificial intelligence lab is debuting two new models focused on robotics, which will help developers train ...

Gemini Robotics also makes robots more dexterous, allowing them to perform more precise tasks, like folding a piece of paper. Gemini Robotics also makes robots more dexterous, allowing them to perform ...