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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, the only way the automaker could check if the chassis would fit...
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 a Hyundai factory. The new version of the bot, evolved from the...
Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don’t Have to
Unlike some of the latest consumer drones, which fly almost autonomously, the Asio X requires mostly manual control, and in some very unforgiving locations too, as Astorino points...
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 robots are in real-world situations, says Fern. Even being able to run...
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 systems are still unreliable—though some companies are starting to find success. Today,...
Figure’s humanoid robot no longer walks like it needs the bathroom
We’ve recently seen humanoid robots that can cartwheel, kung-fu kick, and front flip, but such attention-grabbing stunts aren’t the goal of California-based Figure AI.
Instead, its team of roboticists...
