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 ...

The Rho-alpha model incorporates sensor modalities such as tactile feedback and is trained with human guidance, says ...

Atlas, the humanoid robot famous for its parkour and dance routines, has recently begun demonstrating something altogether more subtle but also a lot more significant: It has learned to both walk and ...

Peter Chen, CEO of the robot software company Covariant, sits in front of a chatbot interface resembling the one used to communicate with ChatGPT. “Show me the tote in front of you,” he types. In ...