EPFL's robotic appendage features fingers that bend both ways and is designed to retrieve objects from spaces too hazardous for human hands.

OpenAI has rapidly scaled its robotics lab over the past year and plans to open up a second lab, insiders say.

Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum on Thursday about his vision for a world where there are more robots than people—enough robots that you won't be able to think of anything more to ask them to do.

On Jan. 22, Louisiana's economic development agency and St. Bernard-based SSE Steel Fabrication announced an agreement with Houston-based tech startup Persona AI to launch a pilot program at SSE to develop humanoid robotics for industrial uses. Greater New Orleans Inc., southeast Louisiana's economic development nonprofit, also is participating.

The symmetrical design and flexible fingers mean that the robot can transport objects on either side of its body. For humans, that would look like holding a ball in your palm while simultaneously grasping a piece of fruit on the back of your hand.

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon discusses how robots “perfected on one particular task” could become commonplace from health care to retail.

Jan 22 (Reuters) - Intuitive Surgical on Thursday beat Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter profit and revenue on growing demand for its surgical robots used in minimally invasive procedures. Shares of the Sunnyvale,

Tesla Inc. will probably sell its Optimus robots to the public by the end of next year, according to Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, who’s said the carmaker’s fortunes will be increasingly dependent on humanoid machines.

As first spotted by Matter Alpha, the Chinese drone manufacturer has joined the Connectivity Standards Alliance, the organization behind Matter. This means it could potentially add Matter support to its new Romo robot vacuum line,