Some robotics companies develop robots that look like people, but the video from the U.K. capital appeared to show a human woman in costume.
AI’s concealed labor has repeatedly led us to overestimate the technology. Humanoid robots are entering a similar phase.
Despite huge technical progress, these robots are still clumsy at handling everyday tasks in homes or hospitals or other ...
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The heat of the ongoing AI boom has spilled over to a famously difficult hardware space — humanoid robotics. Forbes has learned that a pair of Silicon Valley ventures, each with more than $100 million ...
In 2025, the Jetsons fantasy of a robot butler stopped feeling like retro-sci fi kitsch and started looking—if you squint through a teleoperator’s VR headset—almost plausible. Meanwhile, investors ...