Robotics

The U.S. military has sophisticated air defenses. Against consumer drones, it apparently has very few good options.

Nothing humbles a $2 million robot arm quite like a pickle jar.

Uber just placed a big bet on a company whose robotaxi performance is going backward. That bet is now headed to California's ballot.

"We're Amazon warehouse workers with PhDs." One astronaut's complaint became a startup's founding insight — and a $6.1M funding round.

The Register called it "the end of autoworker jobs." The reality is more mundane — and more disruptive.

Manufacturing velocity just became the new competitive moat in humanoid robotics — and one Chinese startup owns it.

5,500. That's how many humanoid robots Unitree shipped last year while Boston Dynamics was rehearsing its CES routine.

Your robot isn't slow because of bad hardware. It's slow because researchers have been pruning in the wrong place—and nobody noticed.

The Unitree G1 hit 3.3 m/s in Caltech's lab. The company claims 5+ m/s. Only one of those numbers has been verified.

Your robot will fetch the wrong plate because natural language can't point.

Marc Raibert spent two decades teaching the world that robots could run, jump, and do backflips.