One of the joys of browsing secondhand shops is the possibility of finding old, perhaps restorable or hackable, electronics at low prices. Admittedly, they usually seem to be old flat-screen TVs, ...
For decades, robots have excelled in structured settings like assembly lines, where tasks are predictable and tightly scripted. “The emergence of vision-language-action (VLA) models for physical ...
Abstract: This paper presents a waypoint-scheduled path planning method for multi-robot navigation through narrow passages while maintaining formation and ensuring safe inter-robot distances. The ...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that the company would begin phasing out its Model S and Model X electric vehicles this year and retool a California factory to produce humanoid robots instead. The ...
A New Jersey homeowner put hands-free winter snow removal to the test during Winter Storm Fern, using an autonomous robotic snow blower from Yarbo to clear his 6,000-square-foot driveway while he ...
Tesla plans to end production of its Model S and Model X vehicles in the spring. The company will convert the factory space to build its Optimus robot. CEO Elon Musk stated the move is part of a shift ...
Elon Musk admitted on Tesla’s Q4 2025 earnings call today that the company doesn’t have any Optimus robots doing useful work in its factories right now. This is a striking admission, given that Musk ...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who turned an upstart electric vehicle maker into an industry-changing powerhouse, is pulling the plug on the two models that helped get him there, as he struggles with another ...
Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Sprout, a 3 1/2-foot-tall humanoid from Fauna ...
Before you can get a robot to do anything useful, you need to understand how it works and the math behind its movements. It’s like learning the alphabet before you can write a novel. This section ...
Last year, when The New York Times reported that Amazon's robotics team's ultimate goal was to automate 75% of the company's operations, replacing more than half a million human jobs in an attempt to ...