Scientists built an app that let them control a robot using hand gestures while wearing the Apple Vision Pro VR headset.

San Francisco-based Figure has developed an AI humanoid robot that can walk, talk and Interact. It learned how to brew a pot of coffee by watching videos.

Despite decades of progress, most robots are still programmed for specific, repetitive tasks. They struggle with the unexpected and can't adapt to new situations without painstaking reprogramming. But ...

Instructing a robot can be just a matter of a large language model that handles actions in the same prompt as images and words.