A multi-institution research team from NVIDIA, the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, UC Berkeley, and Carnegie Mellon University released ASPIRE on June 29, 2026 — a ...

The first hotel run by robots will open its doors to the public next year. It comes as no surprise that it's happening in China – on the artificial island built for the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link, the ...

Nvidia just built a system that lets AI agents walk into a robot lab and figure out how to teach the robots themselves. No human hand-holding, no step-by-step programming. Just coding agents, robotic ...

What happens when you give AI coding agents a lab full of robotic arms, some compute resources, and a “generous token budget” for teaching the robots various tasks? The agents can apparently figure ...

In 2021, 60 Minutes visited the offices of robotics company Boston Dynamics and met an early model of its humanoid robot, Atlas. It could run, jump and maintain its balance when pushed. But it was ...

To break the data bottleneck slowing down embodied AI, X Square Robot said it has made XRZero-G0 open-source. The company said its new hardware-software framework reduces real-robot training data ...

XRZero-G0: A framework for high-quality robot-free data collection and embodied AI training SHENZHEN, China, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Scaling embodied AI has long been bottlenecked by data.

A growing workforce of robot controllers is teaching humanoids to move like people so they can work in factories and homes. The humanoid robots are being taught how to do basic tasks: pouring coffee, ...

Google just made building your own AI-powered robot about as accessible as assembling IKEA furniture. At Google I/O 2026, the company demonstrated the Open Duck robot, a compact, 3D-printable machine ...

Given that some of the more famous demos were by Honda and Tesla, you might be forgiven for thinking you need pockets as deep as a car company to get into humanoid robotics — and maybe that was true ...

Most people think of Toyota and picture a Camry, a Tacoma, maybe a Prius. A 7-foot-2 robot shooting free throws at halftime of a professional basketball game? That's a harder image to conjure. But ...

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