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This New Humanoid Home Robot Costs $20K, and You Still Have to Train It

This is Neo, the humanoid robot. It's billed as a personal assistant you can talk to and eventually rely on to take care of everyday tasks, such as loading the dishwasher and folding laundry. Neo ...

This humanoid robot’s spine-chilling move is made for Halloween

When robotics firm Unitree made its G1 humanoid robot available for sale last year, it probably didn’t imagine someone ...
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A humanoid robot is now on sale for under US $6,000. What can you do with it?

You might have noticed that humanoid robots are having a bit of a moment. From Tesla's Optimus to Figure AI's Figure 02, these machines are no longer just science fiction—they're walking, and in ...

The first consumer humanoid robot is here, and it lets strangers see inside your home

Robotics company 1X Technologies (1XT), which secured $100 million in funding from OpenAI, EQT Ventures, and others in 2024, unveiled a bipedal humanoid robot, Neo Beta, last year.
Wired

This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike Movements

Atlas, the humanoid robot famous for its parkour and dance routines, has recently begun demonstrating something altogether more subtle but also a lot more significant: It has learned to both walk ...
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Humanoid Hype Meets Reality: 1X's $20K NEO Home Robot Draws Skepticism, Memes

Initial hype for the 1X NEO cooled after demos showed the robot was still fully tele-operated, sparking skepticism online.
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Humanoid robots could lift 4,000 times their own weight thanks to breakthrough 'artificial muscle'

Researchers have developed a chemical structure for an artificial muscle that can lift up to 4,000 times its weight, and they ...
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US firm unveils wheeled humanoid robot that blends speed, safety and precision

Dex, the company’s first-ever mobile humanoid robot designed for industrial applications. Equipped with the NVIDIA Jetson ...