30 Years Ago, Robots Learned to Walk Without Falling
30 Years Ago, Robots Learned to Walk Without Falling

When you hear the term humanoid robot, you may think of C-3PO, the human-cyborg-relations android from Star Wars. C-3PO was designed to assist humans in communicating with robots and alien species. The droid, which first appeared on screen in 1977, jo…

Lucid Bots raises $20M to keep up with demand for its window-washing drones 

Lucid Bots has seen demand accelerate over the last year for its window cleaning drones and power washing robots.

Amazon just bought a startup making kid-size humanoid robots

The acquisition of Fauna Robotics is the second robotics startup Amazon has purchased this month.

Stateful Robotics secures $4.8M to advance long-term robot intelligence

Stateful Robotics, an embodied AI company spun out of the University of Oxford, hasraised $4.8 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Amadeus Capital Partnersand Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE), …

Agile Robots becomes the latest robotics company to partner with Google DeepMind

Agile Robots will incorporate Google DeepMind’s robotics foundation models into its bots while collecting data for the AI research lab.

Watch this moonwalking humanoid robot impress with lifelike agility

A new video (above) out of South Korea features the field tests and interaction capabilities of KAIST Humanoid v0.7, developed at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). The impressive humanoid robot was developed at KAIST’s Dyn…

Do you want to build a robot snowman?

On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we recapped CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote and debated what it means for Nvidia’s future.

Amazon acquires Rivr, maker of a stair-climbing delivery robot

Amazon and Jeff Bezos had previously invested in the startup.

Employees had to restrain a dancing humanoid robot after it went wild at a California restaurant

A dancing robot in a Haidilao hot pot restaurant boogied down a little too hard.

Watch McDonald’s test humanoid robots on the front line

A McDonald’s in the Chinese megacity of Shanghai is testing humanoid robots in roles usually the preserve of human workers, with other types of robots also let loose inside the restaurant to greet and entertain diners. Truth be told, the robots don’t l…