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What can a humanoid robot actually do in the real world? If you’ve seen videos online of the Boston Dynamics Atlas robot or Tesla’s Optimus bot, you might have assumed that these machines are just ...

The funniest fail of 2025 went viral, with very little competition, as a video of Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus falling during a public demo in Miami has trended across social media, leading to a lot ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

Tesla faces intense scrutiny after its Optimus robot suffered a highly publicised fall in Miami. The incident revealed the machine making gestures suggesting a remote human operator abruptly removed a ...

It’s been quite a year for humanoid robots, with all manner of increasingly advanced designs coming to our attention. The ...

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One of the most significant insights from the study is that roboticists must engage both technically and physically with ...

The goal is to get the robots working with actual humans in areas such as manufacturing, facility operations and health care.