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Previously a contributor to Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, and US News. Robot vacuums that can both mop and sweep your floors have improved significantly in recent years. While they are still not as ...
Love, Death + Robots season 4 is set to return with a fresh batch of thrilling and visually captivating episodes. The animated anthology series, which blends sci-fi, fantasy, and horror ...
It's a bright spring morning in Hanover, Germany, and I'm on my way to meet a robot. I have been invited to see the G1, a humanoid robot built by Chinese firm, Unitree, at the Hannover Messe ...
Another did so a few steps later. A third quickly ran into a railing. Still, the remaining 18 humanoid robots taking part in a Beijing half-marathon on April 19th leapt, skipped or trundled ...
In addition to about 12,000 living, breathing runners, this race also welcomed 21 humanoid robots to its start line. This half marathon, which took place in Beijing’s high-tech manufacturing hub ...
Musk said the rare earth magnets are needed for the arm of the robots in order to allow the machine powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to fit in small spaces. China has approximately 44 ...
A robot sorts lug nuts before attaching wheels to electric cars at a Zeekr plant in Ningbo, China.Credit...Qilai Shen for The New York Times Supported by By Keith Bradsher Keith Bradsher ...
China’s halt this month on exports of magnets containing heavy rare earth metals has affected Tesla’s plans to manufacture Optimus robots. By Keith Bradsher Reporting from Shanghai Elon Musk ...
and by combining these modules in different ways the researchers behind this work have found applications across a range of fields, from lightweight dancing robots to mechanical computing.
The world’s first half-marathon with humanoid robot participants in Beijing has offered a striking glimpse into the progress and challenges of the country’s robotics industry, as only six out ...
China’s humanoid robot manufacturers are charging full steam ahead to mass production, which a new report said would boost the total value of automata made on the mainland this year to about 4.5 ...
What just happened? It appears that one thing humanoid robots still can't do better than their human counterparts is long-distance running. This fact was illustrated during a half-marathon in ...