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Could humanoid robots go from the lab to the factory floor?

Engineers and computer scientists are developing AI-powered robots that look and act human. Boston Dynamics invited 60 Minutes to watch its humanoid, Atlas, learn how to work at a …

Will AI-powered humanoid robots someday work alongside us? | 60 Minutes

Engineers and computer scientists are developing AI-powered robots that look and act human. Boston Dynamics invited 60 Minutes to watch its humanoid, Atlas, learn how to work at a …

Training Robots In My Apartment

“Two college kids showed up with Clorox, and cameras on their heads—and filmed themselves cleaning,” writes Suzy Weiss. “The footage will train robots. I feel awkward about it.”…

How Chinese manufacturers are dominating the humanoid robot supply chain, even as the industry struggles to find a purpose for such robots (New York Times)

New York Times : How Chinese manufacturers are dominating the humanoid robot supply chain, even as the industry struggles to find a purpose for such robots — China's lead in humano…

Sources: Germany's Neura Robotics, which builds AI-powered humanoid robots, raised $1.4B from Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon, Nvidia, and others at a ~$7B valuation (Financial Times)

Financial Times : Sources: Germany's Neura Robotics, which builds AI-powered humanoid robots, raised $1.4B from Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon, Nvidia, and others at a ~$7B valuation — C…

I just watched a robot kick a child and I'm over it — let's keep robots away from people until these bots are 100% safe

A humanoid robot was filmed accidentally kicking a child in the chest, and it's probably time for us to rethink bringing these early bots inside our homes.…

Robots keep falling on their faces — Silicon Valley has a plan to fix it

It's been a rough few weeks for humanoid robots.…

Are humanoid robots now coming for retail jobs?

Figure AI signs commercial deal with Catalyst Brands to deploy humanoid robots at a Reno warehouse handling sorting and packing for JCPenney and more.…

Thanks Largely to Robots, Ukraine is Now Talking About Winning

UBTech soon to unveil not just one, but emotional humanoid robots

Microrobots deliver stem cells for nerve regeneration

A research team from ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich (UZH) has developed a novel approach to treating spinal cord injuries: controllable microrobots deliver stem cells dire…

Investors bet humanoid robots will transform industry and homes over the next decade

“Be ready for it,” said one fund manager who sees enormous opportunities in the space.…

China deploys humanoid robots to sort 1,200 parcels per hour in massive postal hub

Modern robots impress, but are years away from replacing humans

AI-powered humanoid robots are still years away from replacing human workers due to challenges with adaptability, reliability, safety and real-world performance, researchers say.…

NASA Space Roboticist Challenge

The Fly Foundational Robots (FFR) mission will launch a robotic arm, with seven degrees of freedom, to low Earth orbit. NASA is opening access to the robotic arm to a select group …

New York City-based Mecka AI, which trains robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones, raised $60M, including a $25M Series A (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Ben Weiss / Fortune : New York City-based Mecka AI, which trains robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones, raised $60M, including a $25M Series A — Data is the …

LG shares jumped 300%+ this year, after largely sitting out South Korea's chip-rally in 2025, as LG seeks to expand into physical AI businesses such as robots (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)

Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg : LG shares jumped 300%+ this year, after largely sitting out South Korea's chip-rally in 2025, as LG seeks to expand into physical AI businesses such as rob…

Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios : Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data — …

Figure Humanoid Robots Get Jobs With JCPenney, Aéropostale, Brooks Brothers

City robots doused in beer and violently attacked as police hunt suspects

Northern California police are on the hunt for two men who attacked and poured beer on city robots tasked with surveying the city’s sidewalks for safety improvements.…

TIL for the last few decades a former Cold War spy and mathematical savant has been card-counting at casinos to fund his creation of complex calendrical puzzle-paintings targeted towards a future audience of hyper-intelligent robots

A robot startup is wreaking havoc on short-term rentals in San Francisco — Airbnb hosts allege 'guests' secretly tested robots indoors, left the units completely trashed

A $12,000 lawsuit has been filed by one of the hosts.…

This Trump-linked startup plans to put humanoid robots in the military

With ties to the Trump family, Foundation Robotics Labs is aiming to deploy humanoid robots in the military in the next 12 to 18 months.…

BlackBerry's stock is up more than 160% over the past three months, as the company's QNX division positions its automotive software as an OS for robots (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)

Luke Kawa / Sherwood News : BlackBerry's stock is up more than 160% over the past three months, as the company's QNX division positions its automotive software as an OS for robots …

Shift will tidy up your home for free, but will record the chores to train robots

Your messy home may be more valuable to AI companies than you think. Shift wants to clean it for free and use the footage to train robots.…

The missing layer between W&B and Datadog: observability for AI robots

A backend service falls over at 2am and you know the drill: open the dashboard, follow the trace,...…

Booster Robotics from Beijing came out to show off their humanoid robots can play as well

AI warfare is here and the U.S. Army is practicing for it, robots and all

In the U.S. military's latest war games, AI took a front seat. A top commander told CBS News "it's not going to go away, and we ignore it at our own peril."…

U.S. Army practices for warfare with AI and robots

The U.S. military conducted exercises in the Moroccan desert to explore the future of warfare, and artificial intelligence took center stage. CBS News' Chris Livesay saw the Army u…

AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots (Robert Hart/The Verge)

This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots

The dirtier the better, apparently.…

Hyundai to send 25,000 Atlas robots to the US

Hyundai reportedly plans to deploy over 25,000 Boston Dynamics Atlas humanoid robots across U.S. auto plants, starting at its Georgia facility in 2028.…

Humanoid robots 'the future' of car making, says BMW

BMW is introducing humanoid robots to a car plant in Europe, building on similar projects in the US.…

This company wants to clean your house for free, to train AI and robots

Shift today announced that it will clean users' houses for free and will record videos of the process in exchange for training AI and robots.…

Labor shortage fuels ramp-up of humanoid robot development

Declining birth rates across the globe are driving an 'unprecedented wave of investment' in robots to sustain workforces.…

At Cannes, Hollywood's war against AI is over – and the robots won

The technology enjoyed its unofficial coming out party at this year’s festival…

Should We Let Robots Kill People?

Are we ready for autonomous drones to make life-and-death decisions on the battlefield? Christian Brose, the chief strategy officer of Anduril Industries, explains on “Interesting …

Bot Company allegedly trashing Airbnb rentals with their prototype robots

The guests behind the bookings have received negative reviews from a number of Bay Area hosts, alleging they damaged the property and personal belongings.…

Humanoid robots 'the future' of car making, says BMW

BMW is introducing humanoid robots to a car plant in Europe, building on similar projects in the US.…

Shift Offers Free NYC Cleaning to Train Household Robots

Today, we're launching shift. We're starting by cleaning your apartment in New York City, for free. Here's how it works. Book a shift cleaning. A vetted shift operator comes to yo…

The human gaze speaks to children, who remain insensitive to the gaze of humanoid robots

He filmed himself doing household tasks — for AI robots

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Reece Rogers of WIRED about a new wave of data collection marketplaces, where users can sell their videos of everyday tasks to AI developers.…

Why Google Earth can't train the AI models that robots need

Figure Humanoid Robots Get Jobs With JCPenney, Aéropostale, Brooks Brothers

Figure got a job at dad’s company. Not literally, of course, because humanoid robots don’t have dads. Or moms. But figuratively (sorry).…

Figure's robots sorted packages for 200 hours straight

What started as a 10-hour human-versus-robot challenge turned into a continuous marathon shift spanning nine days of continuous work....…

Robotics giant Figure AI demonstrates its robots to the world

Figure AI showcases humanoid robots performing real-world tasks as investor interest in robotics and AI automation accelerates. Read more!…

Uber drivers in Massachusetts just pulled off the biggest labor win since 1941 — just before the robots arrive

Jean Fredo drives 60-hour weeks terrified of losing app access with no appeal. Now he has a union. So does everyone watching from California.…

I just watched a Chinese robot make the worst eggs I've ever seen and I'm a little less worried about robots taking our jobs

GigaAI's SeeLight S1 does laundry, folds clothes, handles a microwave, but its egg-making skills are a bit iffy.…

BlackBerry Is Back, But This Time It’s About Cars, Robots, and AI

Human Archive, which trains robots using first-person video from 1,000+ camera-equipped caps worn by Indian home services workers, raised $8.2M from YC and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

'Anti-clanker': Why millions of people are cheering this android's humiliation

The robot's failure is bringing humans together in harmony.…

This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots

Human Archive, a startup founded by Berkeley and Stanford researchers, is paying gig workers in India to wear camera-equipped caps and sensor devices to collect the real-world phys…

YY Group partners with Velobotics on autonomous cleaning robots

'Security of your network is essential to security of your robot': Industrial robots targeted by malware, which could open them up to hacking — is this how the revolution begins?

Critical Universal Robots vulnerability lets attackers execute commands directly on collaborative robots with full system-level privileges…

Who Owns Your Robot's Brain?

By Vektor Memory — 14 min read…

Delivery robots are spreading across LA. Residents ‘both pity and hate them’

A region known for its lack of walkability now has more obstacles for pedestrians to contend with…

China will put a unique ID code on humanoid robots, just like citizen ID for us humans

China's new humanoid robot ID system works like a citizen identity code. a unique number that follows each bipedal machine through its entire life cycle.…

Unitree Develops Production-Ready Mech Suit

China's Unitree produces both humanoid robots and dog-bots. Now they've scaled up the former, into something that a driver can climb inside (albeit quite awkwardly). They've just u…

Robots That Know What to Ask: Recovering Misaligned Rewards through Targeted Explanations

Learning reward functions from demonstrations assumes that demonstrations provide adequate supervision over all features -- or task-relevant aspects of behavior. In practice, demon…

Humanoid robots work nonstop in package test

Figure AI claims its three humanoid robots completed over 24 hours of continuous autonomous package sorting without any human control in a warehouse test.…