Apptronik has sold another $520 million in a Series A extension to existing and new investors like Google and Mercedes-Benz.

Google DeepMind released a video on YouTube on September 25, revealing how their humanoids are now capable of performing multi-step, complex tasks using multimodal reasoning. In a series of tests ...

Google is hard at work creating automated home appliances, robots and a space elevators in a secret lab known only as Google X. Google has already used some of its ideas, most notably its ...

US robotics firm Apptronik is expanding its presence of humanoid robots on factory floors ...

Google DeepMind on Wednesday debuted two new AI models for robotics, both running on Gemini 2.0, which Google calls its "most capable" AI to date. Google said it will partner with Apptronik, a ...

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Google DeepMind has announced that it has taught one of its robots how to tie a shoe. Unfortunately, the robot isn’t very good at it yet. In fact, the bot’s shoe-tying abilities arguably rank quite ...

Inventor of all manner of awe-inspiring and uber-creepy robots, Boston Dynamics has finally found a buyer. SoftBank, the Japanese Google-alike which has been on a buying spree of late, just announced ...

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