Moravec‘s Paradox

Skip to content He Xiaopeng, Chairman and CEO of Xpeng Motors, recently shared his views on the progress of Xpeng‘s humanoid robot at the overseas shipping ceremony of Xpeng X9, stating that although the current industry’s robot technology is generally at the L2 stage, Xpeng‘s goal is to advance to…

A collage of artist concepts highlighting the novel approaches proposed by NASA's 2025 NIAC awardees for possible future missions. (Image credit: Saurabh Vilekar, Marco Quadrelli, Selim Shahriar, Gyula Greschik, Martin Bermudez, Ryan Weed, Ben Hockman, Robert Hinshaw, Christine Gregg, Ryan Benson, Michael Hecht) NASA has awarded funds to 15 trailblazing…

In a bold leap into the future of robotics, Nothing, the consumer electronics brand renowned for its minimalist smartphones and audio devices, has announced its entry into the humanoid robot race. Just minutes ago, the company shared a teaser video on X, featuring an image of a sleek, faceless humanoid…

People will have the chance to fly a drone, experience virtual reality, and meet a robotic dog at next month's Oxford Brookes Science Bazaar. The free annual event, aimed at children aged five to 16, attracts hundreds of families from across Oxfordshire and beyond. This year, it will feature 70…

Posted February 22, 2025 8:00 pm 2 min read Students with the Alberta Tech Alliance Association are preparing for the Canadian Pacific Regional Competition. Drew Stremick / Global News Max Du and the rest of the Forge 4421 team were busy Saturday making adjustments and tweaks to their robot before…

WATCH the haunting moment the world's first humanoid robot Protoclone - complete with muscles and bones - twitches and spasms into life. The robot is a "clone" designed to look as human as possible - gristle, sinew and all - and its creators hope it'll soon be lurking around our…

Sanctuary AI has revealed better hand sensors for their humanoid robots. It is a new generation of tactile sensor technology optimized to improve dexterous manipulation. Sanctuary is believes great robot hands are performing all of the high value tasks in the workplace when combined with AI and sensors. This requires…

Image credit: Snapshot Games You are playing a co-op session with Julian Gollop, Snapshot Games's CEO and the man who created XCOM. He's showing you Chip n' Clawz vs. The Brainioids, a real time strategy game where you'll gather resources, fabricate structures, and give orders to robot minions in battles…

About a year ago, Boston Dynamics released a research version of its Spot quadruped robot , which comes with a low-level application programming interface (API) that allows direct control of Spot’s joints. Even back then, the rumor was that this API unlocked some significant performance improvements on Spot, including a…

STOCKHOLM — Executives at U.S. tech giants Google and Meta said that Europe's artificial intelligence industry is being held back by excessive regulation, adding to rhetoric from Donald Trump's administration that the region's strict tech rules are choking innovation. Speaking at the Techarena tech conference in Stockholm, Sweden, public policy…