Given that half of the population on the planet is in the active workforce, which would be about four billion people, a forecast by Morgan Stanley that by 20250 one billion humanoid robots are going to populate the planet, this … Continue reading Will Humanoid Robots Lead to Superabundance?
It’s rare to have the opportunity to be face-to-face—or rather, face-to-helmet—with a robot, while still being observed by it from a different perspective. That’s because the Linz-based company—Austria’s only manufacturer of humanoid robots—has incorporated an unusual feature into Workmate: a … Continue reading The Robot with the Drone
Walking, when you really think about it, is controlled falling. We lean forward, but before it gets too dangerous and we lose our balance, our legs stop us from falling. Science fiction author Douglas Adams would have loved this, because … Continue reading Humanoids: Legs or Wheels?
Humanoid robots that dance, do somersaults, and perform kung fu moves are fascinating, but they say little about how they can help us in real life. If anything, the only insight we gain from this is that robot hardware has … Continue reading Figures Robots Sort Packages for 200 Hours Straight Without a Bathroom Break
While humanoid robots made of plastic and metal dominate the news and capture the public’s interest, companies and universities are already researching the next generation of robots: after rigid robots come soft robots. The most prominent representative of soft robots … Continue reading Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles for Soft Robots and Wearable Exoskeletons
Interest in humanoid robots continues to grow, as does the number of manufacturers. In my overview, I have already identified well over 200 manufacturers, who together have more than 300 models on the market or in development. But manufacturing individual … Continue reading The Birthplaces of Humanoid Robots Are Emerging
Preventing falls in a malfunctioning bipedal humanoid is one of the biggest challenges in the field of robot safety. Figure.AI, a San Jose-based manufacturer of humanoid robots, is introducing “Vulcan”—its new AI-based robot control system that enables the humanoid to … Continue reading Limping Robots for Security
LinkedIn user Nick Dimichino recently witnessed some disturbing behavior on a flight. He observed another passenger using Claude, the chatbot developed by the San Francisco-based company Anthropic, and verbally abusing the chatbot for three hours. Would we want to hire … Continue reading Is the Abuse of Robots and AI by Humans Acceptable?
The video showing a humanoid robot from Figure.AI autonomously loading and unloading a dishwasher is followed by another video. Once again, the vision-language-action model (VLA) called Helix 02 demonstrates that the robot (the Figure 03 model) moistens a table with … Continue reading Figure 03 Humanoid Tidies Up The Apartment
Who doesn’t know and love the little lamp from Pixar Animation Studios that appears in the opening credits of every new film from the animators in Emeryville, between Berkeley and Oakland? It all began 40 years ago with a Pixar … Continue reading The Lamp Robots Are Coming!