SoftBank Group, the Japanese multinational conglomerate known for its bold investments, is once again in the spotlight. With a renewed ...

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet. By Meaghan Tobin and Xinyun Wu Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Robots made by Chinese ...

In the future, a caregiving machine might gently lift an elderly person out of bed in the morning and help them get dressed. A cleaning bot could trundle through a child’s room, picking up scattered ...

UPS will invest about $120 million to buy 400 truck-unloading robots from Pickle Robot Co., adding detail to its $9 billion automation plan aimed at cutting labor costs. The robots can unload trucks ...

What’s keeping them off the street is a challenge robotics researchers have circled for decades. Building robots is easier than making them function in the real world. A robot can repeat a TikTok ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A robot named Pepper greeted visitors at the Aina Haina Public Library for the first time Wednesday. Pepper is responsible for greeting visitors, answering questions, ...

AINA HAINA, Oahu (KHON2) — Pepper the robot is the newest addition to the library’s team, who will help guests with directions, make friendly conversation and comes with many entertainment features ...

This article was commissioned in conjunction with the Professors’ Programme, part of Prototypes for Humanity, a global initiative that showcases and accelerates academic innovation to solve social and ...

A few short months ago, almost every robot made by the hundreds of companies working on humanoid robots could charitably be described as slow, topping out at around three mph. Walking was on the edge ...

SoftBank and Nvidia are negotiating a stake in Skild AI as part of a funding round above $1B that would value the robotics-AI startup near $14B. Skild builds foundation models to give robots a ...

SoftBank Group and Nvidia are in talks to lead an investment of over $1 billion at a $14 billion valuation in Skild AI, a software company building a foundational robotics model, Reuters reported. The ...

Investor enthusiasm grows for humanoid robotics amid AI advancements Skild AI is backed by Amazon, Khosla Ventures, Jeff Bezos Startup unveiled a robotics AI model in July that works across many types ...