A play about the revolt of human workers — not machines — gave us the word 'robot'

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...

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Fading the humanoid robot revolution: iRobot's co-founder issues a warning for investors

Count iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) co-founder Rodney Brooks as one of the skeptics that humanoid robots will be able to deliver on all the promises being made across the industry. Brooks also is the ...
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Duke researchers create program that can 3D print functional robots

Four of the General Robotics Lab's 3D-printed walking robots. They're all based on different animals. A team of researchers at Duke University have invented a program that uses written prompts to ...
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Google's Robots Can Now Think, Search the Web and Teach Themselves New Tricks

DeepMind's updated Gemini Robotics models mark a shift from single-task machines to robots that plan multi-step missions.

A few tweaks and this fighting robot will give as good as it gets

Fast forward six months and the G1 robot is showing clear signs of improvement, though admittedly it still needs a few tweaks to become an effective combatant … if that’s the goal.