Rodney Brooks’ critique of modern robotics serves as a wake-up call for the industry to temper its enthusiasm with practicality. While acknowledging the irreplaceable role of advanced AI, he stresses ...

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, ...

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

Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, ...

The commercial boom in AI has sparked renewed interest in humanoid robots. The Humanoids Summit gathered experts to explore ...

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