CES 2026 was awash in walking, lifting, interacting machines. But robots that actually look human aren't necessary in industrial settings. The focus is shifting from humanoid appearance to ...

The series focuses on building real-world robots that perform everyday tasks like laundry, cleaning, and object manipulation beyond simulations.Nick Builds/YouTube A robotics maker has showcased a ...

Tesla’s Optimus robot just took a giant leap forward, literally. In a pair of newly released videos, Elon Musk reveals Optimus performing complex dance moves, now entirely untethered and autonomous.

Abstract: “Robot factors” design, analogous to ergonomics for humans, seeks to create devices and equipment that can be readily operated by robots, by considering typical capabilities of current ...

According to Wenlong Huang (@wenlong_huang) on Twitter, the newly introduced PointWorld-1B is a large pre-trained 3D world model developed in collaboration with Stanford and NVIDIA. This AI system ...

Last year during CES 2025, NVIDIA spent most of the time during its keynote touting its leading position in artificial intelligence. It threw in a few hardware announcements, including its RTX ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. Aliza Chasan ...

AI company Runway has announced what it calls its first world model, GWM-1. It’s a significant step in a new direction for a company that has made its name primarily on video generation, and it’s part ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville-based company said its new portable 3D construction robot could help lower homebuilding costs and make housing more affordable across Northeast Florida. Forge 3D ...

SIMA 2, which can figure out how to solve problems inside virtual worlds, could lead to more general-purpose agents and better robots. Google DeepMind has built a new video-game-playing agent called ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.—Rule #1 when testing humanoid robots: Be nice. You know why; you’ve seen the movies. And Neo looks like it marched straight out of one. The 5-foot-6-inch robot shuffled to the ...