Before Brazil and Norway retook the pitch at New York/New Jersey Stadium for their Round of 16 match on Saturday, something happened at halftime that had never occurred…
Read more Meet the soccer-playing humanoid robot that just delivered the game ball at the Brazil v. Norway FIFA World Cup match | FortuneWelcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for all things “future of transportation.” To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility!…
Read more TechCrunch Mobility: ‘Physical AI’ enters the hype machine | TechCrunchCES 2026 is in full swing in Las Vegas, with the show floor open to the public after a packed couple of days occupied by press conferences from the likes of…
Read more CES 2026: Everything revealed, from Nvidia’s debuts to AMD’s new chips to Razer’s AI oddities | TechCrunchFirst, a report on the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Then, a look at the progress made on AI-powered humanoid robots. And, Alysa Liu: The 60 Minutes…
Read more 1/4/2026: Maduro; Here Come the Humanoids; Alysa LiuIn 2021, 60 Minutes visited the offices of robotics company Boston Dynamics and met an early model of its humanoid robot, Atlas. It could run, jump and maintain…
Read more How Boston Dynamics upgraded the Atlas robot — and what’s nextWith rapid advances in artificial intelligence, computer scientists and engineers are making progress in developing robots that look and act like humans. A global race is underway to…
Read more Boston Dynamics is training an AI-powered humanoid robot to do factory workFor decades, engineers have been trying to create robots that look and act human. Now, rapid advances in artificial intelligence are taking humanoids from the lab to the…
Read more Boston Dynamics’ AI-powered humanoid robot is learning to work in a factoryResearchers with the University of Maryland are turning a dog they nicknamed Spot into a robot that can assess patients at mass casualty scenes. At a scene where…
Read more Can AI turn a robot dog into a first responder? – WTOP NewsWhile there is a lot of work to do, Tedrake says all of the evidence so far suggests that the approaches used to LLMs also work for robots.…
Read more This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike MovementsThe past decade has seen humanoid robot makers trying to make their creations more and more like humans. But here in 2024, we seem to be witnessing an…
Read more Watch This New Robot Relax in the Creepiest Way PossibleThe savvy marketers at Boston Dynamics produced two major robotics news cycles last week. The larger of the two was, naturally, the electric Atlas announcement. As I write…
Read more Humanoid robots are learning to fall well | TechCrunchYou don’t need to have been petrified by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Skynet-commissioned cyborg assassin in 1984’s The Terminator to fret that super-strong, all-terrain, bipedal humanoid robots sprinting up steps,…
Read more The Atlas Robot Is Dead. Long Live the Atlas RobotInversion Space is aptly named. The three-year-old startup’s primary concern is not getting things to space, but bringing them back — transforming the ultimate high ground into “a…
Read more Inversion Space will test its space-based delivery tech in October | TechCrunchElon Musk has shared a new video on Saturday featuring Optimus, the robot Tesla has been working on since 2021. But anyone who tries to watch the video…
Read more Elon Musk’s Latest Robot Video Looks Like It Was Shot on a Phone From 2002Ben Shirken (l.) and Reggie Watts at this year’s 7×7. Photo by Owley Studios, Courtesy of Rhizome. The intersection of art and technology gets a lot of press…
Read more Rhizome’s 7×7 Models a Deeper Collaboration Between Art and ScienceFor the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics. Subscribe here for future updates. Part 1:…
Read more Robotics Q&A with Boston Dynamics’ Aaron Saunders | TechCrunchLA City Council approves robot police dog for LAPD LA City Council approves robot police dog for LAPD 04:03 A $278,000 robotic dog was approved by the Los…
Read more Los Angeles approves $278,000 robot police dog despite
