Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

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They don’t get fruitcakes or Christmas cards from grateful patients, but for decades robots have been helping doctors perform gallbladder removals, hysterectomies, hernia repairs, prostate surgeries ...

Robotics startup Figure recently shared a new video showing several of its humanoid robots performing a task that could be applied to the automotive industry. Figure completed a trial deployment of ...

At UC Berkeley, researchers in Sergey Levine’s Robotic AI and Learning Lab eyed a table where a tower of 39 Jenga blocks stood perfectly stacked. Then a white-and-black robot, its single limb doubled ...

Autonomique Inc., a Physical AI software company, today announced that robots powered by its AI platform are progressing towards production deployment at F&P Mfg., a Canada-based Tier‑1 automotive ...

A multi-institution research team from NVIDIA, the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, UC Berkeley, and Carnegie Mellon University released ASPIRE on June 29, 2026 — a ...