General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

The goal is to get the robots working with actual humans in areas such as manufacturing, facility operations and health care.

One of the most prominent skeptics is robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks, a co-founder of Roomba vacuum maker iRobot who wrote in ...

Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the commercial boom in ...

Well, the Unitree R1 might actually be it. This isn’t just another clunky machine for a lab; it’s a serious step towards ...