China’s dominance of the rare earth metals business—with a chokehold on Western militaries and key industries—has become a key geopolitical issue. Chinese companies make most of the parts that go into ...

Humanoid robot training is booming around the world. Tech companies are rushing to build the robots for a market projected to ...

Students brought their robots to Rutherford High School to compete in the FIRST Tech Challenge robotics competition. It is Rutherford’s second year competing.

While it’s not the most advanced humanoid robot we’ve seen, its price — a little more than many flagship smartphones — makes ...

The Turing Award-winner has argued that progress in robotics is essentially dependent on major research breakthroughs in ...

Amazon reportedly has a plan to replace more than half a million U.S. workers with “cobots,” and avoid hiring at least ...

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With Figure 03, we see images of a humanoid robot doing the dishes, serving drinks, or working at a hotel reception desk and our minds tend to fill in the gaps and assume the robot is acting like a ...

Selina Xu leads China and AI research in the office of former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt. Helen Zhang is deputy chief of staff and director of research and projects there. Schmidt invests in ...

In context: Elon Musk has long hyped Tesla's Optimus robots as a potentially transformative technology capable of eclipsing its electric vehicle business and driving the company toward a multitrillion ...