An OpenAI-backed humanoid robot startup says it's moving away from using humans to train its Optimus rival

Humanoid robot companies employ armies of human operators to train their machines by doing tasks like squatting and washing ...
VnExpress International

US’s 1X humanoid robot learns new skills from videos without human trainers

U.S. robotics firm 1X has unveiled an AI update for its humanoid robot, NEO, enabling it to learn new physical skills ...
New York Post

Human-like robot, developed for fighting, goes berserk and throws tantrum

Welcome to this week’s episode of “man-made horrors beyond human comprehension.” A humanoid robot named DeREK had what you might call a “moment” on the floor of a San Francisco robotics lab this week, ...
TwistedSifter on MSN

Robots danced alongside humans at a concert in China and folks think it was pretty strange

A viral TikTok video showed robots dancing alongside humans during a concert by singer Wang Leehom in China recently, and let ...
Stocktwits on MSN

XPeng rolls out first humanoid robot prototype — but why is the stock falling in Hong Kong?

CEO He Xiaopeng said XPeng’s first ET1 humanoid robot unit has rolled off the production line. ・The company previously said ...
The Robot Report

X Square Robot secures $140M in funding for AI foundation models

X Square Robot has raised $140 million to build the WALL-A model for general-purpose robots just four months after raising ...