Discover HITTER, a UC Berkeley humanoid robot that plays table tennis using AI-powered planning to outsmart human players.

Even with our reassurances about safety, people readily imagined hazards: humanoids could trip, stumble, or tip over; they might glitch, run out of battery, or malfunction. The idea of a robot handling hot surfaces or sharp objects were also mentioned by multiple participants as serious concerns.

Recently, humanoid robots have made significant progress again: Ubtech signed a 250 million yuan order for embodied intelligent humanoid robots, and Zhiyuan Robotics is expected to win the bid for the Hubei Humanoid Robot Innovation Center project, marking a comprehensive acceleration in the industry.

The Optimus team has shifted away from motion capture suits and virtual reality headsets and plans to prioritize a vision-only approach.

The Generalist Robot 00 Technology project – or GR00T for short – is described as "a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots, designed to further its [NVIDIA's] work driving ...

Nvidia is pushing the bar on robotics with the introduction of Project GR00T, a multimodal AI to power humanoids of the future with advanced foundation AI. Demonstrated today during the GTC ...

Musk is already the richest man in the world, but a new Tesla package could make him even richer if he manages to increase the company's market value.

OpenAI may be gearing up for a new challenge: humanoid robotics. A recent report by The Information suggests that OpenAI has internally discussed developing its own line of humanoid robots ...

Humanoid robots are symbols of power and technological capability, a geopolitics expert says. China and the US are going head-to-head `to mass produce them, like a 21st-century space race. But ...