California-based Figure AI announced on Wednesday that it is officially retiring its Figure 02 (F.02) humanoid robots. The decision comes after an 11-month deployment at BMW Manufacturing’s ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

You might assume that Tesla has the humanoid robot stage to itself, but several Chinese automakers are also sprinting toward the same goal. Among them, EV startup Xpeng is taking the lead, planning to ...

Today, Xpeng held its AI Day 2025 at its new headquarters in Guangzhou. The automaker is positioning itself as an AI company with what it calls new “AI-defined applications” powered by the new Xpeng ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The South Korean automaker’s new $7.6 billion factory is a bulwark against tariffs and EV-hostile policies. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. Humanoid robotics company Figure AI has raised “more than $1 billion” in a series C ...

Teddy Warner, 19, has always been interested in robotics. His family was in the industry, and he says he “grew up” working in a machinist shop while in high school. Now Warner is building a robotics ...