American companies are staging boxing matches with VR-controlled Chinese humanoids to enthusiastic fans. A researcher says it is just robot theater.

To date, virtual reality has been widely associated with gaming. But as this immersive technology improves, it will increasingly make its way to other spheres of life, including work, impacting how ...

Chinese robot maker Dobot Robotics has showcased its humanoid 'Atom' robot preparing a delicious steak. Although impressive enough, the real feat was the fact that the robot was remotely operated from ...

Telepresence isn’t always about Star Wars-style holograms. Sometimes it’s about transporting a remote individual’s actions and expressions to another place using a bulky, VR-driven robot, as ...

Meta lost $77 billion in XR. Does that mean XR is dead, or are all the benefits accruing to robotics? And ... maybe ... smart ...

TURIN, Italy--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Roboverse Reply, specialises in integrating Robotics and Reality Capture with Mixed Reality, has won the Advanced Industrial Robotic Applications (AIRA) Challenge for ...

Don’t let the name of the Open-TeleVision project fool you; it’s a framework for improving telepresence and making robotic teleoperation far more intuitive than it otherwise would be. It accomplishes ...

Two years ago, Tesla’s Optimus prototype was an underwhelming mess of exposed wires that could only operate in a carefully controlled stage presentation. Last night, Tesla’s “We, Robot” event featured ...

TL;DR: Tesla is hiring for its AI Teleoperation team, requiring candidates to use advanced VR rigs to remotely operate and train robotaxis and humanoid robots. Tesla is actively hiring from its AI ...

A robotic arm that moves too quickly can feel creepy. One that moves too slowly feels awkward and unhelpful. In a VR study, researchers found that AI-powered prosthetic arms were best accepted when ...

From fish to machines: The natural “control law” of fish was embedded in swarms of robotic cars, drones, and boats. Fish are masters of coordinated motion. Schools of fish have no leader, yet ...