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Until now, the humanoid robotics industry has been all promises and pilots. Although important to the eventual development of new technology, these programs involve a small…

Most coverage of humanoid robotics has understandably focused on hardware design. Given how often their developers throw around the phrase “general purpose humanoids”, more attention should…

Bumble founder and executive chairman Whitney Wolfe Herd raised eyebrows this week with her comments about how artificial intelligence could change the dating experience. During an…

UK-based autonomous vehicle startup Wave started life as a software platform loaded into a tiny electric “car” called Renault Twizy. Complete with cameras, the company’s co-founders…

The smart marketers at Boston Dynamics produced two major rounds of robotics news last week. The bigger of the two was, of course, the electric Atlas…

Much has been written (and will continue to be written) about the impact of automation on the labor market. In the short term, many employers have…

Found Energy doesn’t have the typical startup origin story: It started with a space robot that supposedly ate itself. Now, the company is developing the same…

Sometimes nature provides the best blueprints for building efficient robots. It can also provide the best material. Billions of years of natural selection have produced some…

There are countless reasons why home robots have had little success since the Roomba. Pricing, practicality, form factor and mapping contributed to one failure after another.…

Pilot season has officially begun for the world of humanoid robotics. Last year, Amazon began testing Agility’s Digit robots in select fulfillment centers, while in January…