Amazon Has Made a Robot With a Sense of Touch

Amazon has developed a new warehouse robot that uses touch to rummage around shelves to find…

The Download: A longevity influencer’s new religion, and humanoid robots’ shortcomings

Bryan Johnson is on a mission to not die. The 47-year-old multimillionaire has already applied his…

The Dream of the Metaverse Is Dying. Manufacturing Is Keeping It Alive

It used to be that when BMW would refit a factory to build a new car,…

2025 Is the Year of the Humanoid Robot Factory Worker

Later this year, Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work in…

Sweetgreen’s CEO on Robots, RFK Jr. and Why Salads Are So Expensive

When Jonathan Neman was a student at Georgetown in the mid-2000s, he and some friends wanted…

Bug-size robots that fly and flip could pollinate futuristic farms’ crops

In the new design, each of the four units has a single flapping wing pointing away…

Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half Marathon in Beijing

While capabilities like dancing can be fun and eyecatching, they don’t actually show how useful humanoid…

Xaba raises $6M from Hitachi Ventures to build synthetic brains for industrial robots

Xaba, a startup building synthetic brains for industrial robots with zero code, announced it has secured…

An Open Source Pioneer Wants to Unleash Open Source AI Robots

Lapeyre says that selling humanoid robots remains challenging because the use cases are unclear and the…

Nuro’s $106M raise backs its shift from delivery robots to licensing autonomy tech

After months of hearty marketing efforts and large-scale technology demos across the U.S., Nuro has secured…

Amp Robotics raises $91M to build more robot-filled waste-sorting facilities

Recycling today kind of sucks. People are generally confused about what can be recycled and where.…