Humanoid robots have quietly crossed a threshold from lab demos to real industrial work, and the software making that leap possible is Google’s Gemini family of AI models. Instead of being ...

Amazon's newest generation of warehouse robots is no longer a side experiment tucked into a few pilot facilities. The company now relies on automated systems across dozens of fulfillment and sortation ...

The takeaway: At a time when investors are placing multibillion-dollar bets on humanoid robots, the people building them describe a more complicated picture. Engineers and executives working on the ...

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 ...

During my visit to Japan last month, meetings with financial institutions and technology labs in Tokyo revealed a trend quietly gaining momentum: swarm finance. I came to these conversations not as a ...

Warehouses used to run on muscle, clipboards, and caffeine. It was a predominantly manual work environment that required elbow grease for everything. Now we have algorithms, sensors, and even fleets ...

Why can’t a robot do the dishes? Well, it can, but maybe not as well or as cheaply as we’d hoped. More than once, I have started a robotics article with an appeal to the Jetsons tv show of the late ...

A new video released by California-based tech firm Figure AI shows its humanoid robot out for a run with workers from the ...