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Unitree Robotics files for a $610 million IPO after achieving rare profitability in humanoid robotics, signaling a potential ...

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Most critiques of the nascent “AI personhood” movement have come from the right. Writing for National Review Online in 2017, Wesley J. Smith concluded that artificial intelligence programs are ...

How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out Chen Liang, the founder of Guchi Robotics, an automation company ...

Nvidia used GTC 2026 to unveil new physical AI models, simulation tools, and robotics partnerships aimed at factories, ...

Karen Read was acquitted of second-degree murder in June 2025 in the death of Boston police officer John O'Keefe following two high-profile trials. In January 2026 she gave her first in-depth ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A hot new job has emerged in Los Angeles: robot wrangler to help delivery bots navigate the real world. The robots ...

When the streets of Los Angeles flooded with rain last week, some of the city’s residents found themselves feeling sorry for a peculiar object: a food delivery robot floundering in water and debris.

China's humanoid robots impressed at the Spring Festival Gala earlier this week, shifting public sentiment. The robot's abilities displayed at the event were far more advanced than those shown just ...

Eduardo B. Sandoval is a Friend of The Conversation. Last year, Norwegian-US tech company 1X announced a strange new product: “the world’s first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform ...

Three books unpack our infatuation with prediction, and what we lose when we outsource this task to machines. To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying ...