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.
New Scientist

Robot avatar lets people see and feel things remotely through VR

A humanoid robot can relay video and touch sensations to a person wearing haptic feedback gloves and a virtual reality (VR) headset hundreds of kilometres away, offering a way for people to ...
Engadget

Reachy the robot can now be controlled via VR

Last year at CES French startup Pollen Robotics debuted Reachy, an open-source humanoid robot (the top half of one at least) capable of performing a wide variety of tasks — from traditional R&D to ...
New Atlas

VR system moves furniture with robots to make virtual objects real

As amazing as VR can be, nothing breaks the immersion like putting your hand right through a wall. While some teams are using haptics to simulate the sense of touch, a new study has a clever ...
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VR could help train employees working with robots

Working with robots is becoming more common in the recycling industry, helping automate tasks and making complicated work easier. But training human employees to work with robots can be difficult ...
Forbes

Robot Stealth VR Game ‘Budget Cuts’ Coming To PlayStation VR This May

The rather excellent stealthy robot-stabbing game Budget Cuts is finally coming to PlayStation VR in May. In collaboration with publisher Perp Games (Moss, Sairento, Doctor Who: The Edge of Time), ...