A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and sometimes defeating them, according to a new study in the journal Nature that shows how advances in artificial intelligence are making robots more agile.

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world.

Humanoid robots have quietly crossed a threshold: they are no longer just research prototypes or sci-fi props. They walk, run, lift, learn workflows, and increasingly interact with human environments designed for human bodies. That matters because the ...

Modern robotics has reached a point where movement is no longer the main challenge – machines can already navigate, grasp, and operate in space with impressive precision. Yet enabling them to truly “live” and function in the real world remains an unsolved problem.

Unitree G1 humanoid robot KOID told CNBC that "only time will tell" if the AI boom is actually a bubble. KOID is manufactured by Unitree, one of China's hottest tech companies, and the Nvidia-powered robot shares a name with an ETF launched in June by ...

For the last decade, most conversations about AI infrastructure have centered on language models, recommendation engines, and data pipelines that live comfortably inside data centers. But robotics changes the rules. The moment AI leaves the cloud and ...

Humanoid robots are attracting capital at a pace the underlying technology cannot yet justify. Between viral dance performances, stratospheric valuations, and foundation models that have never turned a production shift,