A practical look at the top robots and humanoids making waves, including Tesla Optimus and Boston Dynamics Atlas.

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Chinese robotics company X Sqaure Robot has raised $143.3 million (1 billion yuan) in ...

Optimus's origins trace back to Tesla's AI Day in August 2021, where Musk unveiled the concept as a general-purpose humanoid ...

Early demos relied heavily on remote human operators for Neo, but the man behind the machine says Neo is getting better at doing things on its own.

Companies from around the world traveled to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month to show off their latest ...

Qualcomm said its new architecture supports advanced perception and motion planning with end-to-end AI models.

Diligent was founded in 2017 by Andrea Thomaz and Vivian Chu, world-renowned social roboticists, with the vision of creating socially intelligent robot assistants that improve human labor productivity ...

SHANGHAI, Oct. 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, the XMAN-R1, a humanoid embodied service robot developed by Keenon Robotics – a global leader in general-purpose and special-purpose embodied humanoid ...

Many researchers agree that there has been a step change in humanoid capability over the past five years, owing to cheaper ...

“‘The question will really be one of meaning: If the computer and robots can do everything better than you, does your life ...

Implements human-like whole-body force sensing and compliance across arms, fingers, and waist; introduces a new high-DOF compliant hand, a low-friction backdrivable arm, and a gravity-compensated ...