RLWRLD, a Physical AI company developing robotics foundation models––software intelligence trained directly in real industrial environments––has closed a Seed 2 funding round, bringing its total seed ...

At GTC 2025, Nvidia demonstrated 1X’s NEO Gamma humanoid robot running its GR00T N1 foundation model. At GTC 2025, Nvidia demonstrated 1X’s NEO Gamma humanoid robot running its GR00T N1 foundation ...

When Leo Wang arrived at Carnegie Mellon University from Hong Kong, he was already fascinated by robots. But it wasn’t until he joined the Robomechanics Lab led by Aaron Johnson that his interest ...

AI’s concealed labor has repeatedly led us to overestimate the technology. Humanoid robots are entering a similar phase.

Atlas, the humanoid robot famous for its parkour and dance routines, has recently begun demonstrating something altogether more subtle but also a lot more significant: It has learned to both walk and ...

China has turned a science fiction trope into industrial policy, opening a dedicated “robot school” where humanoid machines are drilled in everything from factory work to household chores. The project ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. This Phantom humanoid robot by Foundation is working in a factory. Some of them, however, ...

Imagine a future where we share our world with walking, talking humanoid robots. It's not hard; we've all seen it in science fiction. But could it be just around the corner? Well, a report recently ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are undoubtedly accelerating research, but are these tools helping scientists to advance new frontiers or are they simply optimizing solutions to existing ...

A team of researchers led by Nvidia has released DreamDojo, a new AI system designed to teach robots how to interact with the physical world by watching tens of thousands of hours of human video — a ...