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

Count iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) co-founder Rodney Brooks as one of the skeptics that humanoid robots will be able to deliver on all the promises being made across the industry. Brooks also is the ...

At the 2025 Bund Conference's "Robot Vocational Skills Performance Competition," the performance of humanoid robots was refreshing. They not only completed tasks like alarm triggering during ...

Rodney Brooks, a renowned roboticist who co-founded iRobot and is a former MIT researcher, has warned that current ...

From “cold” to “explosive hot,” the humanoid robot sector has undergone a tremendous transformation in just one year. At the same time last year, the industry was still discussing the theme of “cold ...

Google's humanoids are now capable of carrying out complex, multi-step tasks using the newly released Gemini 1.5 model family ...

The importance of developing a US home-grown humanoid robot industry that includes assembly and the full supply chain can’t be overstated, as the the products will be integral to the civilian economy ...

It is available as a NVIDIA NIM microservice for model deployment. Isaac GR00T N1.6 also expands robots’ ability to move and manipulate objects simultaneously, handling tougher challenges such as ...

The price tag is orders of magnitude cheaper than most robots in its class, which can run into tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now China’s Unitree Robotics, best known for its nimble ...

In short, the warehouse of the future may well include humanoid robots, but they will arrive gradually, as part of a broader ...

Training humanoid robots to hike could accelerate development of embodied AI for tasks like autonomous search and rescue, ...