Robotics
NVIDIA Launches Cosmos 3 Edge as Japan’s Industry Signs On
NVIDIA has quietly locked much of Japanese industry onto its technology, and the scale is what stands out. The company announced that a sweeping roster…
China Builds A Humanoid Robot With Supercomputer In Its Head
A Chinese robotics firm has unveiled a humanoid that thinks entirely for itself, though the brain inside is unmistakably American. Booster Robotics launched the T2…
MIT Just Made Drones Far Smarter… And Tinier
MIT researchers have developed a low-power chip that lets tiny drones and robots map their surroundings in 3D. The system builds detailed maps in real…
China’s Strangest New Job Wants You to Train A Robot
In Shenzhen, China’s hardware capital, a strange new job is booming. Workers strap on virtual reality headsets and arm exoskeletons to pilot humanoid robots, teaching…
Hong Kong Opens First Humanoid Robot-Run Convenience Store
A 24-hour convenience store has opened on Hong Kong’s Hung Hom waterfront with no human employees, run entirely by a single humanoid robot named Xiao…
The Guy That Gave Us VLC Is Building A Robot Startup
Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the French developer best known as the lead developer of VLC Media Player, which has more than 6 billion downloads worldwide, has raised…
Wearable Robots Enter the Consumer Market to Help People Age With Mobility
A new generation of lightweight, joint-specific wearable exoskeletons is entering the consumer market, aimed at those who want to walk farther and more comfortably as…
Why It Is Impossible to Make Robots Without China
Japan, the longtime pioneer of robotics dating back to the 1960s, has fallen behind China in the AI-driven humanoid robot boom currently reshaping global manufacturing.…
AI Robot Learns Air Hockey in Simulation, Beats Humans Without Real-World Practice
A team of University of British Columbia students built an AI-powered air hockey robot that learned the game entirely in virtual simulation, never touching a…
This Quiet Startup Wants to Put a $30,000 Robot in Every Home
While Silicon Valley pours billions into flashy humanoid robots, a small startup in Martinez, California, is taking the opposite approach. The company Hello Robot just…
HEC Appoints NUST Rector as National Chair on AI & Robotics
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan has officially appointed Dr. Muhammad Zahid Latif, Rector of NUST, as the National Chair on Artificial Intelligence and…
Japanese University Adds 10 Robots to Completely Replace Human Staff
Institute of Science Tokyo launched a fully automated robot laboratory at its Yushima campus featuring 10 robots including humanoid Maholo LabDroid. The facility operates without…
Chinese Researchers Create Grain-of-Rice Sensor to Give Robots Human Touch
Shanghai Jiao Tong University researchers developed a 1.7-millimeter optical force sensor enabling robots to detect pressure, sliding, and twisting forces from all directions using light…
