5+ day, 45+ min ago   (665+ words) Enter the robot, made by a startup called Luum. Before Nathan Harding co-founded Luum, he co-founded Ekso Bionics, which built wearable robots that got stroke and spinal-cord patients rehabbing and relearning how to move after a disability. In that world,…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1080+ words) Good morning. Mary J. Blige levels of drama in the rarefied world of artificial intelligence research this week. The NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster has accused OpenAI of semi-stealing the solution to a “million-dollar” mathematics program out from under his nose and…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (454+ words) Robotaxis will be a common sight on the world’s streets within five years, predicted James Peng, founder and CEO of the Chinese autonomous driving firm Pony.ai. “I think the technology problem is pretty much already solved,” he said at…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (506+ words) Danielle’s a poodle, with big eyes, fuzzy ears, and cartoon lavender fur. She’s also a robot, and as I talk on Zoom to Marc Theermann, she’s sitting behind him. “Danielle is a robot we built on top of Boston Dynamics…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (541+ words) The $13.6 billion-a-year global logistics giant is running pilots with five humanoid-robotics providers, and another European pilot is expected later this year. A big focus is on what he calls “single-digit challenges”—getting robot hands to more closely mimic human hands....

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (557+ words) Chinese humanoid robots broke records set by humans, including beating Usain Bolt’s 100-meter sprint world record, on the opening day of the Olympics-like World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Saturday. More than 2,000 humanoid robots were participating in the event,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (560+ words) AI’s Three-Body Problem: no single force can dictate the outcome Fortune AI’s Three-Body Problem: no single force can dictate the outcome Two celestial bodies orbiting each other trace stable, predictable paths. Add a third, and the system turns chaotic: each…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (575+ words) The CEO of a Chinese robotics company whose stock skyrocketed 460% after going public this week said humanoid robots might still be far away from their own “ChatGPT moment.” The 36-year-old CEO behind robotics company Unitree, Wang Xingxing, said Thursday the…...