Figure AI videos of the Helix Humanoid Robot loading washing machines in a residential setting and sorting objects from a conveyor belt for industrial settings. Brian Wang Brian Wang is a Futurist ...

The dream of a polite robot butler quietly loading the dishwasher might be headed for retirement before it ever clocks in.

A robot that can touch, feel, think, and build a densely stacked wall of a wide variety of boxes in a truck or trailer? FedEx is working with a robotics company to test just such a system. Dexterity ...

As AI’s promises are replaced by enterprise reality, another hyped technology stomps into view. So, what is the real story behind industrial robotics, service robots, and humanoid machines? The ...

Humanoid robots have quietly crossed a threshold from lab demos to real industrial work, and the software making that leap possible is Google’s Gemini family of AI models. Instead of being ...