Uncanny ‘warm-skinned’ robot built to feel as human as possible could show up in service worker roles

It’s warm bot-tied. Techsperts are sounding alarm bells following the release of an eerily realistic humanoid service bot ...

China's humanoid robots take centre stage for Lunar New Year showtime

By Laurie Chen BEIJING, Feb 16 (Reuters) - China's most-watched TV show, the annual CCTV Spring Festival gala, on Monday ...

Nvidia releases DreamDojo, a robot ‘world model’ trained on 44,000 hours of human video

Nvidia-led researchers unveiled DreamDojo, a robot “world model” trained on 44,000 hours of human egocentric video to help ...
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I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human.

PALO ALTO, Calif.—Rule #1 when testing humanoid robots: Be nice. You know why; you’ve seen the movies. And Neo looks like it marched straight out of one. The 5-foot-6-inch robot shuffled to the ...
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Disturbing video shows humanoid robots preparing for border patrol duties in China

Walker S2 is an adult-sized humanoid robot with legs, a torso, and arms. China is sending these robots to patrol their border with Vietnam.
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Can This $20,000 Humanoid Robot Really Work at Home? I Asked the CEO Behind Neo

Early demos relied heavily on remote human operators for Neo, but the man behind the machine says Neo is getting better at doing things on its own. Connor is a technology writer and editor, with a ...