This summer, I found myself in the strange position of watching a humanoid robot try to load laundry. It squatted beside a ...

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders ...

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 ...

Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot doing training routines, or the latest humanoids from Figure loading a washing machine, and it’s easy to believe the robot revolution is here. From the outside, it ...

Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying ...

China’s XPeng is best known for its electric vehicles, which have begun to take off in Europe. But later this month, the ...