Humanoid robot offers a peek into a future without chores

Figure is gradually prepping its humanoid robot to competently take on household chores. While the California-based company has ambitions to deploy its robot in industrial settings like factories and ...
Purdue University

Improving robots’ social skills: Purdue professor programs robots for improved nonverbal communication to better support humans

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They’re emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to ...
New Atlas

Watch: Physical AI humanoids get to work at BMW factory

BMW is expanding its investigation of humanoid robotic workers at its factories. The automaker has just announced that it ...
Tech Xplore

Robots that refuse to fail: AI evolves 'legged metamachines' that reassemble and withstand injury

Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined ...
PCMag

It Took Me Just 2 Hours to Vibe Code a Mass Surveillance Site With OpenAI's Codex

With zero coding skills, and in a disturbingly short time, I was able to assemble camera feeds from around the world into a ...
Earth.com

Humanoid robots tackle dishes, laundry, and cooking

Humanoid robots are beginning to take on household tasks, showing how AI-powered machines could soon assist with chores in ...