When humanoid robots dominated the stage of last year’s Spring Festival Gala with sleek dance routines, Ai Lin saw more than a spectacle. He saw a business. Soon after, the e-commerce livestreamer in ...

On a recent sunny day in Silicon Valley, I visited the industrial headquarters of 1X Technologies. Security was tight, so I had to put a sticker over my cellphone’s camera and talk my way out of ...

Morgan Stanley doubled its China humanoid robot shipment forecast for the second time this year. A growing roster of Chinese manufacturers has raced to scale production and deploy robots in real-life ...

Dozens of new robot arms have been installed at General Motors’ flagship electric vehicle factory in Detroit—even as 1,300 workers remain out of work following what was supposed to be a temporary ...

It’s great to have a robot vacuum that can help you sweep your floors. But as useful as they might be, they’re not designed to tackle wet messes like spills or your dog’s muddy paw prints. A robotic ...

General Motors has gutted its electric-vehicle ambitions and sidelined more than 1,000 jobs at its flagship Detroit assembly plant — while adding 50 robots, sparking outrage from labor unions. The ...

Abstract: A multi-robot navigation and obstacle avoidance algorithm is proposed based on multi-agent deep deterministic policy gradient (MADDPG) framework. Compared to single-agent reinforcement ...

Abstract: We proposed a novel Kinematic Batch Informed Trees algorithm (K-BIT*) to solve problems of the low efficiency, poor geometric smoothness and local optimum when conducting path planning for ...

Spurred on by the colossal shortage of welders in manufacturing and other sectors, robotic welding has gained enormous ground since it was introduced in 2017. Now, with AI growing in power, both the ...