To match the lip movements with speech, they designed a "learning pipeline" to collect visual data from lip movements. An AI model uses this data for training, then generates reference points for ...

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 ...

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When Xpeng unveiled its Next Gen Iron humanoid recently, the robot glided across the stage with movement so fluid that the crowd froze. Many viewers thought they saw an actor in a suit. Clips spread ...

Parallax Worlds, a startup building hyper-realistic virtual simulations to stress-test robots before deployment, today announced it raised $4 million in a seed round. Developing and deploying robots ...

What if your phone didn’t just digitally follow you, but physically moved its camera to track you, follow the stars, or act like a tiny gimbal? Honor’s unusual “Robot Phone” — which sounded almost ...

When Honor first revealed its outlandishly named Robot Phone — really a smartphone with a flip-out DJI Osmo Pocket-esque camera arm built into the back — it was only in a slick CGI video. Now it’s ...

UBTECH Walker S2 - World’s First Mass Delivery of Humanoid Robots Chinese robotics firm UBTECH Robotics released a remarkable video this week appearing to show hundreds of its Walker S2 humanoid ...

Blackstone Global Real Estate co-Head Kathleen McCarthy is leaving the firm to pursue new opportunities. McCarthy will leave at the end of the year, she wrote on LinkedIn. Her departure means that ...

Xpeng (XPEV) shares surged about 6.2% on Tuesday during pre-market hours of trading on growing optimism about the company's progress in humanoid robot technology. The company highlighted that IRON is ...