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MINNEAPOLIS — Little white robots began rolling around the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in October — delivering Starbucks frappes or Panda Express sesame chicken — and now the ...

And SAEKI, which is today announcing it has raised $6.7 million of seed finance ... Oliver Harley and Matthias Leschok have built a robot with 3D printing and machining capabilities.

Boston Dynamics Wednesday announced a partnership designed to bring improved reinforcement learning to its electric Atlas humanoid robot. The tie-up is with the Robotics & AI Institute (RAI ...

Amazon has stepped up its robotics development in recent years, and it could save the e-commerce giant as much as $10 billion annually, Morgan Stanley analysts wrote in a research note on Sunday.

Carnegie Mellon University and NVIDIA have teamed up to develop a new training technique that enables humanoid robots to perform complex athletic movements with unprecedented agility—from Cristiano ...

GM completes its acquisition of Cruise, which means a brutal 50% reduction in workforce. Those remaining will work on integrating Cruise's autonomous software into GM's Super Cruise.

The US electric car manufacturer Tesla has shared its vision of how the planned Cybercab robot cabs could be kept clean automatically in the future. The result is a robotic arm with an oversized ...

<strong>Tesla</strong> aims to roll out its unsupervised FSD robotaxi software in most global markets this year, helping justify the company’s $1.3 trillion market ...

But the word "robot" was first introduced by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in his 1921 play R.U.R., which stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots).

Hangzhou-based Unitree forecasts a breakthrough in humanoid robot capabilities by 2026, when these automatons are enabled with more advanced perception, comprehension and task-execution capabilities.