A humanoid robot beating Usain Bolt is impressive.

But plugging in a cable might be more important.

At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, humanoids have already surpassed the human 100m world record, with Tiangong Ultra running 100m in 9.39 seconds.…

What happens when a robot can keep moving after taking ballistic damage?

In footage circulating from ARC, robotic platforms are shown continuing to walk after apparent 20mm machine-gun fire strikes the body, with sparks visible across the chest.

The robot…

The next AI breakthrough might not generate text.

It might simulate reality.

Accelerated Understanding, founded by Caltech professor Anima Anandkumar and AI engineer Benedikt Jenik, has unveiled a physics-focused AI model designed to predict how physical…

The next bottleneck in robotics may not be compute.

It may be data.

Clara Cheng recently tested Maniformer’s new egocentric data-collection setup, combining a multi-camera headset with its UMI gripper.

What makes this interesting is the amount of information…

A humanoid doing a backflip is impressive.

A humanoid reliably handling a plate is arguably more important.

Walking, balancing and dynamic movements are becoming increasingly impressive in robotics. But dexterous manipulation remains a much harder reliability…

What happens when a car company starts treating humanoid robots like a new vehicle category?

Hyundai is exploring something that goes far beyond deploying Boston Dynamics’ Atlas in its factories.

At its 2026 CEO Investor Day, Hyundai said it has potential…

AI agents are becoming good at reasoning.

The harder problem is giving that reasoning a reliable way to act on the physical world.

Today, connecting a microscope, camera, robotic stage, or other scientific instrument often means building custom integrations…

A robot getting a task right 95% of the time sounds impressive.

In a real deployment, it can also mean 1 failure in every 20 attempts.
Agility Robotics’ CTO Pras Velagapudi describes a useful way to think about the problem: robot telemetry doesn't just tell…

Dexterous robots don’t just need to see the world correctly.

They need to feel how the world pushes back.

Project SuperDex, a simulation platform built for dexterous manipulation, is now open source.

The platform is built around a problem that is easy…

For Physical AI, bad data isn’t just a cleanup problem.

Sometimes, the failure happens before the data even leaves the room.

When robots learn manipulation from human demonstrations, egocentric recordings need to capture the wearer’s hands consistently.…

Most 3D reconstruction starts with a simple question: what does this place look like?

Atlas adds a more powerful one: what would I see if I moved the camera there?

World Labs’ new foundation model for spatial intelligence can reconstruct real spaces from…

Scientific experiments can be bottlenecked by something surprisingly basic: the machines don't speak the same language.

In the brain-imaging setup shown here, a laser has to move and align precisely across multiple components. Each device may have its own…

A car used to move because we told it where to go.

XPENG is showing a different model of mobility: machines that can interpret the world around them and act accordingly.

In the clip, the progression is striking from vehicles that understand their surroundings…

Many of us want home robots. So what’s actually keeping them out of our living rooms?

It’s not just whether a robot can move.

A robot can learn to lift a plate, carry a cup, or reproduce a complex motion. But the same force that lets it handle an object…