Robotics companies want tremendous amounts of data on how we move our hands and limbs, and their tactics are getting strange.

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The dream of deploying humanoid robots in every home has created a new type of job. The only requirements are a head strap, a ...

In real life, robots are pretty simple. They are just, like, an arm putting cars together or what have you. In movies and TV, though, robots have long been intelligent. They’ve had personalities. They ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece — With jerky determination, robots played soccer, wowed children with shadow-boxing skills and shot arrows on Monday at the birthplace of the Olympic Games. As they shuffled ...

In two new papers, UC Berkeley roboticist Ken Goldberg explains why robots are not gaining real-world skills as quickly as AI chatbots are gaining language fluency. UC Berkeley News spoke with ...

Two new papers in Science Robotics, published on August 27 by UC Berkeley roboticist Ken Goldberg, argue that truly capable humanoid robots remain far further off than the most optimistic timelines ...

Data about shoppers’ movements in stores and malls are an unexpected goldmine for the training of humanoid robots, reveals an ex-NASA engineer. So, you’ve built your robot’s World Foundation Model and ...

When you buy a robot, you don’t expect it to be secretly reporting back to servers in China. Yet that’s exactly what researchers have found in Unitree’s humanoid and quadruped robots — popular ...