Figure AI said Tuesday that it had raised more than $1 billion in a funding round that valued the company at $39 billion, ...

Figure announced a $1 billion series C round of funding from investors including Nvidia, Salesforce, Qualcomm Ventures, and more.

Even with our reassurances about safety, people readily imagined hazards: humanoids could trip, stumble, or tip over; they ...

Training humanoid robots to hike could accelerate development of embodied AI for tasks like autonomous search and rescue, ...

Robots used to need our help to keep going. They had to be plugged in or manually recharged. Now, UBTech is changing that. The company’s new humanoid, the Walker S2, has a feature that could reshape ...

Until now, the robot workforce has had to either be plugged in all of the time, or spend some time cabled to the mains to top up its battery pack. UBTech has launched the Walker S2 humanoid, with dual ...

As we continue on our path towards a potential future filled with tireless humanoid robots staffing factory floors, companies are looking to solve a major pain point of the tech: a limited battery ...

Reinforcement learning—the fancy AI industry term for trial and error—was used to train it, including looking at videos of ...

Researchers explore how social robots can help create a more supportive environment for early learners. The study found that children showed fewer physiological signs of anxiety when reading to a ...