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According to recent data from the Pew Research Center, 45 percent of American adults say that if they could choose when to ...

Elon Musk’s latest burst of attention was not for his own Tesla robots but for a Chinese humanoid that can dance, flip and ...

Humanoid robot startups are raising massive funding rounds, and the sales pitch is familiar. Human-shaped machines will soon ...

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Vision-language models (VLMs) are rapidly changing how humans and robots work together, opening a path toward factories where machines can “see,” ...

The next step in the evolution of generative AI technology will rely on ‘world models’ to improve physical outcomes in the real world.