The savvy marketers at Boston Dynamics produced two major robotics news cycles last week. The larger of the two was, naturally, the electric Atlas announcement. As I write this, the sub-40 second ...

MEVITA was designed to be buildable with e-commerce sourced parts. Open-sourced and accessible, it’ll open up bipedal ...

Figure’s founder Brett Adcock says a new partnership with OpenAI could help its robots hold conversation and learn from its mistakes over time. By Mack DeGeurin Published Feb 29, 2024 8:00 AM EST Get ...

Humans and animals are the key inspiration for many robotic systems developed to date, as they possess body structures that ...

Agility Robotics, the creator of the bipedal robot Digit, is opening a manufacturing plant in Salem, Oregon that will give the company the capacity to produce more than 10,000 humanoid robots a year.

If those animatronics at amusement parks or Arnold Schwarzinger's character in "The Terminator" set you on edge, you might want to keep away from Agility Robotics' newest factory. The creators of ...

Bipedal robots aren’t just human-shaped machines with arms and legs. At the cutting edge of robotics, they can also take the form of tiny, power-packed marvels. Meet “Zippy,” a palm-sized, two-legged ...

Compared to robots, human bodies are flexible, capable of fine movements, and can convert energy efficiently into movement. Drawing inspiration from human gait, researchers from Japan crafted a ...

When the term ‘robot’ gets tossed around, our minds usually race to the image of a humanoid machine. These robots are a fixture in pop culture, and often held up as some sort of ideal form. Yet, one ...

Tesla has released a video (below) of its Optimus humanoid robot out for a leisurely stroll. The 38-second clip shows off the robot’s ability to handle soft, uneven ground, and the bipedal bot looks ...

Here at New Atlas, we like to keep tabs on developments in the world of robotics – just so we're aware of how soon Terminator-style machines will assemble and march against the human race. As it turns ...