The price tag is orders of magnitude cheaper than most robots in its class, which can run into tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now China’s Unitree Robotics, best known for its nimble ...

Robot developers keep making it seem like housebots are imminent when they’re decades away, argue Dr Carl Strathearn and Dr Dimitra Gkatzia from Edinburgh Napier University. As much as this might ...

Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing today, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21km course. The robots from ...

As the first humanoid robot in China to adopt a hybrid architecture, K2 'Bumblebee' combines a rolling column screw linear actuator with a rotary actuator in a series-parallel structure, achieving a ...

More than 500 humanoid robots and thousands of spectators traveled to Beijing over the weekend for a sporting event straight out of a science fiction film: the first-of-its-kind World Humanoid Robot ...

You might have noticed that humanoid robots are having a bit of a moment. From Tesla’s Optimus to Figure AI’s Figure 02, these machines are no longer just science fiction – they’re walking, and in ...

This year, the conference will feature an intelligent robotics exhibition for the first time, bringing together industry forces to create an immersive and diverse platform for showcasing the robotics ...

We tend to get fixated on realizing certain contraptions from science fiction, no matter how impractical. Flying cars. Jet packs. And now, humanoid robots. Yet few of these promised robots have ...

Over the next several years, humanoid robots will change the nature of work. Or at least, that’s what humanoid robotics companies have been consistently promising, enabling them to raise hundreds of ...

During a UFC demo in Shanghai, a Unitree G1 humanoid robot unexpectedly confronted Dana White, deviating from its planned martial arts routine. White quickly evaded the robot, escaping unharmed. The ...

The funding will be used to advance the start-up’s development of cognitive and humanoid robots. Germany-based Neura Robotics yesterday (15 January) announced it has raised €120m in a Series B funding ...

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