The Unitree G1. Credit: Xinhua. When you buy a robot, you don’t expect it to be secretly reporting back to servers in China. Yet that’s exactly what researchers have found in Unitree’s humanoid and ...

Behold, the rise of the tennis-coaching robots. First there was the PongBot, followed by the Tenniix and the Acemate. Now, there's the possibly even more capable ball-shooting, performance-assessing, ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A Trackman device used for the Automated Ball ...

People strolling around Tokyo recently may have glimpsed the unusual sight of a tourist wearing a robot on their shoulder. The robot, built by local robotics firm OryLab and called OriHime, offers ...

In a lab in Genoa, Italy, volunteers teamed up with iCub, a child-sized humanoid robot, to slice a bar of soap using a steel wire. The task itself was simple. What surprised researchers was what ...

AI-powered robots are no longer a concept from sci-fi movies. We already see them used in various industries, from industrial robots in manufacturing and humanoid robots in warehouses to surgical ...

On The Vergecast: robovacs and smart lights at IFA, the Google antitrust remedies, and more thoughts on AI zoom. On The Vergecast: robovacs and smart lights at IFA, the Google antitrust remedies, and ...

Abstract: Imitation learning is a promising approach for learning robot policies with user-provided data. The way demonstrations are provided, i.e., demonstration modality, influences the quality of ...

Roborock has introduced its first robot lawnmowers. Three models will be available, each with a different purpose. The company hasn't revealed pricing or release date yet. Roborock is headed outdoors.

Stairs are the enemy of robot vacuums, and Eufy says it has a solution in its new “Marswalker” solution that gives your cleaning robot its own climbing robot. The Eufy Marswalker is the “world’s first ...

Robot vacuums have come a long way, but the Eufy S1 Pro feels like it’s from the future. It maps your home with laser precision, dodges toys and dog bowls, and has enough suction to tackle everything ...

Unitree R1 — a $5,900 humanoid robot that might just be your next best friend. Standing 127 cm tall and weighing 35 kilos, this AI-powered machine can walk, balance, pick up objects, and even adapt in ...