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Ace the Ping-Pong Robot Can Whup Your Ass

Ace is a robot that aims high: It wants to become the world champion of table tennis. It was developed by Sony AI...

A Humanoid Robot Set a Half-Marathon Record in China

Over the weekend in China, a humanoid robot shattered world half-marathon record—the human record—by seven minutes.The star performer was a robot developed by...

This Home Robot Clears Tables and Loads the Dishwasher All by Itself

Memo may not be the world’s fastest barista, but it is impressive—for a robot.I recently watched as Memo, a new home robot from...

Anthropic’s Claude Takes Control of a Robot Dog

As more robots start showing up in warehouses, offices, and even people’s homes, the idea of large language models hacking into complex systems...

Meet the Chinese Startup Using AI—and a Small Army of Workers—to Train Robots

The real question is how effectively AgiBot’s algorithms can teach its robots new tricks. Using reinforcement learning to teach a robot tasks that...

This AI-Powered Robot Keeps Going Even if You Attack It With a Chainsaw

A four-legged robot that keeps crawling even after all four of its legs have been hacked off with a chainsaw is the stuff...

OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI

A renewed focus on robots would suggest that OpenAI believes reaching artificial general intelligence (AGI)—AI that exceeds human intelligence—may require developing algorithms that...

This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike Movements

While there is a lot of work to do, Tedrake says all of the evidence so far suggests that the approaches used to...

Samsung, Nvidia are investing $35 million combined in THIS robotics startup. Here’s why

Robotics software startup Skild AI Incorporated has drawn investments from MNC Samsung Electronics and chips major Nvidia Corporation, totalling $35 million, as both...

Amazon Has Made a Robot With a Sense of Touch

“Amazon stores many different products in bins, so rummaging is necessary to pull out a specific object to fill an order,” says Ken...