Figure’s Bed-Making Robots Show Why Home Humanoids Are Getting Real
Why does the simple act of making a bed become a significant robotics achievement? The primary feature of Figure’s latest…
Mechanical Design & Robotics
Met Gala Robot Stumble Put Humanoid Hype Under a Brighter Spotlight
While the AGIBOT A2 may have required an escort for its appearance down the Met Gala’s red carpet, it could…
Nuclear-Powered Cargo Ships Face One Obstacle Bigger Than Fuel
Can commercial ships exchange their bunker fuel for reactors operating for decades? AMPERA and Scorpio Tankers are testing this idea…
Detachable robot hand crawls into tight spaces and returns holding tools
What changes when a robot “hand” is no longer tied to the arm it works for? A group of researchers…
Serve Robotics buys Diligent and brings sidewalk autonomy into hospitals
What happens when a company that has learned autonomy on busy sidewalks moves the same operational playbook into hospital hallways?…
Atlas Reached the Factory Before Optimus Because It Chased Components
What constitutes a “real” humanoid robot is not a stage show it’s whether the robot can be maintained, trained, and…
A robot face mapped its own muscles, then lip-synced from online videos
What would it take to make a humanoid convincingly believable and only to find that a couple of millimeters of…
Why robot touch is moving from data streams to spikes
Each time a robot fingertip measures continuous pressure values, it stands a chance of using more energy to transfer data…
Atlas Enters Factories by Doing the Boring Work First
What propels a humanoid robot towards inevitability is rarely a moonshot. It is a small, repeatable task done well and…