China has turned a science fiction trope into industrial policy, opening a dedicated “robot school” where humanoid machines ...

Students from 14 schools presented models or charts on the topic — Science for Protecting the Climate and Serving Society.

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Vision-language models (VLMs) are rapidly changing how humans and robots work together, opening a path toward factories where machines can “see,” ...

Social media was recently abuzz with videos of humanoid robots performing tricks that left everyone amazed with their unique tactics.A video recently .

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

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

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

The $700 million humanoid robot order that just landed in China is not a science‑fiction curiosity, it is a signal that ...

Humanoid robots are all over social media, doing everything from dancing to serving drinks. But are they really going to show ...

Cell-sized robots can sense temperature, make decisions, and move autonomously using nanowatts of power—no external control ...