Figure announced a $1 billion series C round of funding from investors including Nvidia, Salesforce, Qualcomm Ventures, and more.

In order for robots to operate safely around humans, they need to see that people are approaching and they need to know when they make physical contact with those people. A new system allows them to ...

Nvidia is aiming to give robotics engineers a boost in the form of a new “brain” for their robots. Launched on Monday, the chip giant said that with the new Jetson Thor modules, robots around the ...

We've seen robot dogs run up hills with luggage, and help fight fires. Now, researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich are putting these mechanical mutts through their paces on the badminton court, ...

THE WORLD’S rubbish heaps are filling up with valuable electronics. According to the UN, some 62m tonnes of e-waste were produced in 2022, enough to fill a line of lorries parked bumper-to-bumper ...

More than 500 humanoid robots and thousands of spectators traveled to Beijing over the weekend for a sporting event straight out of a science fiction film: the first-of-its-kind World Humanoid Robot ...

ELLABELL, Ga.—At Hyundai Motor Group’s ultramodern new auto plant, robots perform a stunning array of tasks. They move materials, attach doors and do almost all of the welding. Dog-like robots, their ...

Looking at the pair of them, one wouldn't put them on the same planet, let alone place them in a comparison test together. The 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ looks positively massive next to the 2026 Lucid ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Kurt Schlosser on Aug 20, 2025 at ...

NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor developer kit and production modules, robotics computers designed for physical AI and robotics, are now generally available. Over 2 million developers are using NVIDIA’s ...

Could a robot unload your groceries and put them away? A new video makes that future seem not so far away. The latest video from Boston Dynamics shows a humanoid robot moving objects from one ...