Taking its first steps into humanoid robotics, Nvidia Corp. today announced Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation artificial intelligence model for bipedal humanoid robots, designed to further ...

“Robot utility models” sidestep the need to tweak the data used to train robots every time they try to do something in unfamiliar settings. It’s tricky to get robots to do things in environments ...

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Physical Intelligence, a startup researching practical artificial intelligence models to create “brains” for robots, announced today it has raised $400 million in new funding. The New York Times broke ...

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When asked to recall the earliest movie that defined robots for him, “Alien: Earth” star Timothy Olyphant leapt from Ridley Scott’s universe into an entirely different sector of space. “I certainly ...

The delightful animated feature The Wild Robot and the box-office success Alien: Romulus are among this week’s best new movies on VOD. Also available this week is Reagan, the biopic we probably didn’t ...

Figure founder and CEO Brett Adcock Thursday revealed a new machine learning model for humanoid robots. The news, which arrives two weeks after Adcock announced the Bay Area robotics firm’s decision ...

Atlas, the humanoid robot famous for its parkour and dance routines, has recently begun demonstrating something altogether more subtle but also a lot more significant: It has learned to both walk and ...