Humanoid robots have quietly crossed a threshold from lab demos to real industrial work, and the software making that leap possible is Google’s Gemini family of AI models. Instead of being ...

A robot that performs well in a controlled simulation can struggle when real-world conditions don't match what it was trained to expect.

BMW didn’t announce a breakthrough. It just let robots work day after day, for months. On one of its production lines, robots ran 10-hour shifts without downtime, handling real assembly work alongside ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. -- Unlike traditional competitions limited to indoor or scripted tasks, ATEC2026 evaluates whether robots can ...

Connecting the dots: Even the most advanced AI struggles outside the lab. In real-world tests, large language models stumble when it comes to spatial reasoning, situational awareness, and handling ...

By the time Figure had livestreamed eight hours of the robots performing “autonomous, unsupervised work,” Adcock was declaring that the team had decided to keep going with the livestream 24/7. He also ...

Most robots have fixed body designs that cannot adapt to new environments or survive damage, making them fragile outside controlled settings. Researchers used AI-driven evolution and Lego-like modular ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few ...

A few short months ago, almost every robot made by the hundreds of companies working on humanoid robots could charitably be described as slow, topping out at around three mph. Walking was on the edge ...

Unlike traditional competitions limited to indoor or scripted tasks, ATEC2026 evaluates whether robots can autonomously complete long-horizon, continuous complex tasks in open, dynamic, and ...