An MIT roboticist who cofounded Roomba maker iRobot says Elon Musk’s vision of humanoid robots as catchall assistants is ‘pure fantasy thinking’

While investors are busy pouring billions of dollars into humanoid robots, an MIT roboticist who has been making robots for ...

Fading the humanoid robot revolution: iRobot's co-founder issues a warning for investors

Count iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) co-founder Rodney Brooks as one of the skeptics that humanoid robots will be able to deliver on all the promises being made across the industry. Brooks also is the ...
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New AI Can Control a Robot Even If Its Legs Get Chainsawed Off

A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.
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Scientists create living robots with customizable movement powered by human lung cells

Carnegie Mellon scientists create AggreBots, tiny lung-cell robots powered by cilia with controlled motility.Word excerpt: ...
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Watch: Humanoid robot displays natural gait, sense of direction to meet friends

PND Robotics have released a new video showcasing their humanoid Adam-U taking accurate steps to reach a room full of robots.
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Asylon Demonstrates Next-Gen Robotic Security Tools Powered by AI and Human Intelligence at the 2025 Global Security Exchange Conference

DroneDog is a high-endurance and agile security robot that serves as a key component of a comprehensive robotic perimeter security solution. DroneDog is enhanced with a proprietary PupPack security ...

A play about the revolt of human workers — not machines — gave us the word 'robot'

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...