The Apollo humanoid is taking steps toward commercial use in a trial jointly conducted by GXO Logistics and Apptronik.

ASTM International’s Aaron Prather will chair the IEEE humanoid study group, which is open to other standards development organizations.

The agreement designates Realbotix as an official developer partner and facilitates collaboration and integration with ROBOTIS’ technology. 

Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor says UBTECH’s Walker S humanoid will be performing various tasks in its car manufacturing process.

In May, exciting events, like the Robotics Summit & Expo and Automate, brought a batch of new product releases and partnership announcements.

1X Technologies showed advances in AI and teleoperation enable multiple humanoids to conduct a sequence of tasks.

In 2024, Figure AI unveiled prototypes of its first generation of humanoid robot developed in just under a year.

OpenAI is creating a new internal robotics research group after pulling back from robotics research in 2021.

All consumer goods are heavily cost-driven. Household robots will be no exception, writes an Engineering.com columnist.

Unitree unveiled its G1 humanoid robot that is a smaller and less expensive version of its H1 humanoid.

Agility Robotics has added Daniel Diez as chief strategy officer, named Melonee Wise chief product officer, and appointed Pras Velagapudi as CTO.

Humanoid robots can help cross the islands of automation normally filled by people to help address the continued labor and skills gaps.

Zion Solutions Group will help distribute and integrate Agility Robotics’ Digit mobile manipulation robot for supply chain applications.

CCTY provides motion control technology to help developers build humanoid and other robots that move smoothly.

SUPCON has debuted its new humanoid for R&D and industrial use at the new Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Innovation Center.

The latest version of Phoenix, and its AI control system Carbon, draw even closer to human-like capabilities, Sanctuary AI says.

Matt Casella from Richtech Robotics introduces the Adam AI-powered robot, and Chris Padwick from John Deere discusses training machine learning for perception.

March 2024 robotics funding was buoyed by significant investment into software and drone suppliers.

Boston Dynamics has retired the hydraulic version of its Atlas and will begin testing an all-electric humanoid robot in the coming year.

Mentee Robotics has emerged on the scene with a new AI-driven humanoid robot, planned for production release in early 2025.

maxon’s portfolio now includes 15 different actuators divided into two families: High Efficiency Joints and High Precision Joints.

The 2024 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award winners, and our editor’s picks, are the topic of this week’s podcast.